Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
The Opportunity:
We're looking for a Tax Manager to take on meaningful ownership across provision, compliance, planning, and R&D credits at a fast-growing global company. This is an individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership and no direct people management responsibilities. In this role, you'll work closely with Accounting, FP&A, Legal, and cross-functional leaders, bringing structure and expertise to Grafana's tax function as we continue to scale.
This role is ideal for someone who is resourceful and adaptable, thrives in a fast-growing remote-first environment, and is excited to leverage tools (including AI) to work efficiently across a broad range of tax areas.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Manage all US federal and state income tax compliance and planning, including corporate returns and estimated tax payments
- Execute the quarterly and annual tax provision process under ASC 740, including deferred tax analysis, valuation allowances, and tax disclosures
- Lead global indirect tax compliance, including sales and use tax, VAT/GST, and gross receipts
- Support and execute R&D tax credit identification, documentation, and maximization across federal and state programs
- Manage tax audits and notices, including preparation of responses and supporting documentation
- Support month-end and quarter-end close through tax accruals, account reconciliations, and tax provision entries
- Maintain the global tax compliance calendar and manage relationships with external advisors
- Design and improve tax processes and workflows, leveraging automation and AI tools to move toward data-driven, scalable approaches
- Use AI tools to accelerate tax research, documentation, and analysis across compliance and planning workstreams
- Serve as the internal tax resource for cross-functional teams by translating complex tax matters into clear guidance for Finance, Legal, and business stakeholders
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- 6+ years of U.S., international tax experience, including Big 4 and/or in-house experience at a multinational company
- Master’s in taxation, CPA, JD, LLM or similar certifications strongly preferred
- Strong command of US GAAP income tax accounting (ASC 740) and international tax concepts
- Hands-on experience with sales tax / VAT compliance and tools such as Avalara
- Familiarity with transfer pricing principles and documentation requirements
- Experience at a high-growth SaaS or cloud company preferred
- Comfortable working autonomously in a remote-first, async environment
- Clear communicator who can translate complex tax concepts for non-tax stakeholders
Bonus Points For:
- Experience at a high-growth SaaS, cloud, or open-source company
- Public company or IPO readiness experience
- Experience working in globally distributed organizations
In the United States, the base compensation range for this role is $127,000 - $153,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
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*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
- 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: 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.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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Skills Required
- 6+ years of U.S. and international tax experience
- Master's in taxation, CPA, JD, LLM or similar certifications
- Strong command of US GAAP income tax accounting (ASC 740)
- Hands-on experience with sales tax/VAT compliance and tools
- Familiarity with transfer pricing principles
Grafana Labs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Grafana Labs and has not been reviewed or approved by Grafana Labs.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision options with low deductibles in the US and local equivalents in other countries. Mental health support is also included, alongside wellness support that can be applied to therapy or ergonomic needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as notably generous, including 30 days of paid vacation plus holidays and additional shutdown days. Parental leave and sick leave are also part of the time-off package, supporting broader work-life needs.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is presented as a standard component of compensation, with RSUs included across roles to provide ownership in company outcomes. The package framing emphasizes total compensation that combines base pay with equity and, in some cases, bonuses.
Grafana Labs Insights
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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