Senior Frontend Engineer - Grafana Data Pro| UK | Remote in London

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 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.

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.

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 Grafana Frontend group is responsible for the end to end user experience on Grafana the observability product and Grafana the platform used by many engineers to build plugins. Our squads are responsible for dashboards, data visualisation and manipulation, navigation across the ecosystem, sharing experience, content search, organisation and more.

The DataPro squad develops tools that empower users to express their data. We serve as the bridge between data producers (Data Sources) and consumers (Data Visualizations), enhancing the capabilities of data sources in line with our "big tent" philosophy.

What we do:

• Query experience & Data manipulation: We build and evolve the query experience as well as the engine and components behind the Grafana data transformations experience, which primarily includes Transformations and SQL Expressions.
• Community Engagement: we listen to the open-source community, we retrieve contributions, and turn feedback into real improvements.
• Operational Excellence: we own the performance, reliability, and maintainability of a system that runs at global scale. We value readability, maintainability and clarity of our code.

How we work:

• No blame: We focus on learning and improving ourselves and our product.
• Better done than perfect: We iterate quickly and deliver value continuously.
• User-first: We design for real users solving real problems and we make data-driven decisions.
• Mentorship & Innovation: we grow together through knowledge sharing, mentorship, internal hackathons, and constant learning.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, you will:

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Drive projects from initial idea all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers.
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team.
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase.
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features.

We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow, backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction.

What Makes a Great Fit:

• Strong engineering skills: Solid experience building production software systems. You’re a self-starter, capable of tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision.
• Complex operational thinking: Can take on complex challenges and break them down into tight feedback loops.
• Proven initiative and pragmatism: You take ownership and drive projects forward, pushing boundaries to find the most impactful solutions.
• Collaborative attitude: You communicate effectively with peers, product managers, and designers.
• Enjoy learning, growing, and supporting others to do the same.
• Appreciate efficiency and strive to identify and utilize the most effective tools for the task at hand.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with open source software and/or commercial open source companies.
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles.
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks.
• Have an active interest in observability and have experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms.
• Have experience mentoring engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment.
• Care about our community of users and contributors and are keen to be an active Grafana Community Contributor.

In United Kingdom, the compensation range for this role is GBP 91,755 - GBP 110,106. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture.
• Scaling Organization.
• Transparent Communication.
• Innovation-Driven.
• Open Source Roots.
• Empowered Teams.
• Career Growth Pathways.
• Approachable Leadership.
• Passionate People.
• In-Person onboarding.
• Balance is Key.

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.