We are looking for candidates in the US and Canada due to the setup of the team and the stakeholders we work with
The Business Applications team at Grafana
- The Business Applications team works together with our Cloud, Enterprise, and Grafana teams to provide the best possible experience for our customers and the most efficient workflow for our staff.
- We build on the grafana.com platform to provide custom solutions and integrate with the many external systems that make up a modern business environment.
- The team is responsible for critical domain areas that ensure the smooth functioning of not just our systems but also our business processes that they’re designed to solve. The team is composed of multiple squads with each focussing on one or more domain areas.
- A few important areas we work on are maintaining the billing engine that’s responsible for calculating our customers’ usage, automating the provisioning process when a customer has signed a contract with Grafana, integrating with cloud provider marketplaces (AWS, Azure, and GCP) to allow our customers to subscribe to Grafana Cloud via their cloud provider, and maintaining the user portal our customers use to manage their account. Business Applications engineers specialize in one or more of the above domain areas.
In this role you will
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of stakeholders
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
- Help design, build, operate, and maintain our critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- Continuously make the existing code better by tackling tech debt, improving the CI/CD pipelines, and increasing test coverage
- Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
- Collaborate with the team and stakeholders over async (Slack, Google Docs) or over meetings
What we’re looking you
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key.
- You are comfortable in a collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful environment.
- You value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape.
- You work well within a team in an agile setup and you're driven to help others.
- Although you can drive your work independently, you also know when to reach out for help.
- You are not afraid to ask questions, look for support and guidance from your mentors and the senior engineers in the team.
- You care deeply about user experience and the quality of the products that you work on.
- You have interests in full-stack development and working in DevOps environments. Engineering teams at Grafana operate in a “you build it, you own it” team mindset.
- You have experience with Javascript/Typescript/NodeJS, React, Go, or similar technologies.
Some nice to haves
- You believe that automation/as-code is important for predictable and reproducible systems.
- You have prior experience or interest in Kubernetes and using Cloud providers.
- Previous experience or interest in observability space.
Our hiring process
- Video chat with 1 of our Talent Managers (30 mins)
- Video chat with 1 of our Hiring Managers (45 mins)
- For folks who prefer to be evaluated on their backend skills, you’ll have a live coding session over a real-world problem with 2 Engineers (60 mins) and then a systems design round (60 mins) with other 2 Engineers.
- For folks who prefer to be evaluated on their frontend skills, you’ll first have a take home exercise and then have a Project Deep Dive interview to talk about a past project/system you worked/built on (60 mins)
In the United States, the Base (OTE for commission positions) compensation range for this role is $129,000 - $154,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.
About Grafana Labs: There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.
Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.
We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.
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What We Do
Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 5,000 Grafana Labs customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, and more than 20 million users of Grafana around the world. Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategies with the LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise offerings, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo) as well as extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, alerting, reporting, and security.
Why Work With Us
Clear communication is vital in a remote-first company. We hold weekly team updates, monthly all-hands calls, co-located offsites, and annual events. We've enhanced hiring, onboarding, and training with a learning management tool and quarterly bootcamps. We offer 30 vacation days plus local holidays, with equal benefits for all employees globally.
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