Staff Frontend Engineer - Observability Drilldown | EMEA | Remote
Job description
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. 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).
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.
This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants based in Spain, Sweden, Germany, the UK or Ireland at this time.
The Opportunity:
The Drilldown team builds intuitive, guided workflows that make complex telemetry easy to explore and understand. We let users navigate seamlessly through their signals, facilitating their ability to gain insights and identify issues. Our mission is to design and maintain intuitive, opinionated, queryless user experiences that empower users to quickly answer telemetry questions through simple point-and-click interactions.
What we do:
- Guided Exploration: We build simple, intuitive UIs that help users troubleshoot and answer questions without writing queries.
- Cross-Data Insights: We seek opportunities to integrate the Drilldown plugins with other parts of the Grafana ecosystem, in order to provide a seamless experience to users.
- Community Driven: We listen to users and contributors, and turn feedback into real improvements.
- Operational Excellence: We write robust, extensible code and own qualification and delivery of our plugin. We monitor usage and performance and always look for ways to improve our functionality and increase the efficiency of our workflows.
How we work:
- No blame: We cultivate a growth mindset, with a focus on learning and improving ourselves and our product.
- Better done than perfect: We iterate quickly and deliver value continuously.
- Experimentation: We develop ideas for new offerings and try them out, then monitor their usage and user feedback on them.
- Performance is non-negotiable: Drilldown must always feel responsive and interactive.
- Mentorship & Innovation: we grow together through knowledge sharing, mentorship, internal hackathons, and constant learning.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Improve and enhance queryless exploration workflows.
- Collaborate with your team and with others at Grafana to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements.
- Lead projects from concept to implementation, incorporating ongoing customer support.
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
- Participate in shared on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee.
- Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues.
- Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase.
We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction.
We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards.
You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro).
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- You are a motivated self-starter with a bias toward action.
- You embrace a user-centric design sensibility.
- You can take complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively.
- You invest in your colleagues and generously share your experience and knowledge, while also learning from your peers and growing your own skillset.
- You know how to communicate and collaborate effectively in a remote first environments
- Deep experience building integrated, frontend applications with React and TypeScript, following modern patterns and best practices.
- Proven ability to take ideas from concept to reality — from brainstorming and design discussions to prototypes, polished UIs, and production-ready features.
- Strong sense of product design and usability, with the ability to contribute creatively to user workflows and visual polish.
- Expertise in best-in-class coding practices, including automation-based testing strategies, maintainable architectures, accessibility, and performance optimization.
- Excellent communication skills in a remote-first, collaborative environment, with a track record of working effectively across teams.
- Bonus: Experience with Open Telemetry.
In Ireland, the compensation range for this role is EUR 117,600 - EUR 141,200. 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.
*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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