Staff Developer Advocacy Engineer | US | Remote

Grafana Labs

3d•Remote

About The Position

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. Staff Developer Advocacy Engineer | US | Remote This is a fully remote position and we're considering candidates in the US. The Opportunity: Grafana is building the Interactive Learning Plugin: an open source, in-product learning experience inside Grafana that helps users level up without leaving their workflow. We’re hiring a software engineer embedded in Developer Advocacy who ships real product code that directly impacts both Grafana Cloud and Grafana OSS. This is for an engineer who moves fast with strong judgment, is excited about AI-assisted development in open source, and wants to help build a platform where anyone can contribute high-quality learning content—not just engineers. Your primary focus will be the open source Interactive Learning Plugin: https://github.com/grafana/grafana-pathfinder-app and its content: https://github.com/grafana/interactive-tutorials

Requirements

AI harness experience (agentic development)
You’ve used tools like Claude Code or Cursor in real development work (daily or close to it).
You can describe your workflow (scoping → iterate → validate → test) and how you manage risks like security and correctness.
Serious software engineering fundamentals
You can ship production-grade changes and explain tradeoffs.
You care about architecture, maintainability, correctness, and raising the quality bar (not “vibe coding” alone).
Grafana context
You’ve used Grafana in real environments—dashboards, troubleshooting, on-call, or monitoring workflows.
You understand observability practices and how Grafana fits into them.
You’ll also do a small but meaningful amount of communication work (~20%) which will include writing clear docs, design notes, and PR descriptions, as well as occasionally demo work or explaining decisions to internal/external audiences.

Nice To Haves

Meaningful open source contribution or maintainer experience
Full-stack experience (strong frontend-only or backend-only profiles are also welcome)
TypeScript and/or Go
Kubernetes familiarity
Experience in the broader observability ecosystem (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, OpenTelemetry)

Responsibilities

Build delightful interactive learning inside Grafana
Ship features that make learning experiences feel obvious, smooth, and scalable.
Improve the end-to-end learner experience—from onboarding to completion.
Enable contribution and authoring (especially for non-engineers): create workflows and product features that let many contributors safely create, iterate on, and improve learning content.
Support private guides and experiences
Make completion tracking that actually matters
Build progress and completion tracking that’s trustworthy, motivating, and useful.
Instrument learning flows so we can understand what’s working, what’s failing, and where learners get stuck.
Treat observability as a product principle
Build fast feedback loops (metrics/logs/traces + user journey visibility) so issues stay shallow.
Make it easy to understand what’s happening in production and in real user experiences.
Ship fast with an AI-driven development workflow
Work daily with tools like Claude Code or Cursor in an agent-based workflow.
Apply strong engineering judgment—scoping, iterating, verifying, and testing—so speed doesn’t compromise quality.

Benefits

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.