Staff Frontend Engineer - Grafana DataViz | US | Remote

Grafana Labs

7d•$174,986 - $209,983•Remote

About The Position

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 visualization and manipulation, navigation across the ecosystem, sharing experience, content search, organization, and more. You'll also have the opportunity to work across the Grafana Frontend team and partner with other squads within the Grafana department to drive innovation and solve complex engineering challenges. The DataViz squad builds and evolves the Grafana Visualizations, aiming to give users the ability to visualize their data in a way that’s easy to set up and understand, so they can pull out interesting and valuable insights. Some of their recent projects include externalizing core visualizations for independent releasability, developing GraphViz for visualizing relationships and flows, improving quality and reliability through enhanced testing strategies, and refreshing the look and feel of existing visualizations like the Table and Gauge. Their work is open source, and their stack is primarily TypeScript, React, and uPlot and eCharts for visualizations.

Requirements

Intellectual curiosity, transparency, high bias towards action, kindness, and enjoyment of teamwork.
Technical leadership experience, including leading teams through projects, mentoring engineers, and serving as a force multiplier.
Clear communication skills in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
Experience operating software built, including being on-call, supporting software in production, ensuring reliability, and responding to incidents.
Experience working on complex solutions and building production software systems.
Self-starter capable of tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision.
User focus and pragmatism, with the ability to break complex problems into short feedback loops (analyze, design, deliver MVP, learn, iterate).
Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks, with a focus on delivering high-quality, real-world solutions.
Care for the Grafana community of users and contributors, with a keenness to be an active Grafana Community Contributor.
TypeScript, React, uPlot, and eCharts experience.

Nice To Haves

Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open.
Active interest in observability (Metrics, Logs and Traces) and experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms.
Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo in a previous role (or on a homelab).
Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Responsibilities

Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, including getting user feedback and measuring shipped features.
Mentor and collaborate with other engineers, raising the engineering bar through code review, design feedback, pairing on hard problems, and writing documentation.
Participate in on-call for services built, acting as a force multiplier in incident response and post-incident learning.
Provide technical support in customer escalations and identify areas of high friction.
Collaborate across squads, representing the team's work externally, writing design proposals, running demos, and advocating for the roadmap in cross-team discussions.
Utilize modern AI coding assistants as part of the daily workflow, backed by a company-funded budget for rapid iteration.
Engage in pragmatic AI-assisted development for faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups, always paired with strong code review and quality standards.
Access and utilize frontier AI models.