Grafana Labs
Senior Frontend Engineer - Grafana Dashboards Core (Remote, Canada EST)
Job Summary
This role involves designing, building, and maintaining critical frontend systems at Grafana Labs, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience. The candidate should have experience with React, TypeScript, and developing scalable, API-driven applications, as well as strong collaboration and communication skills. Responsibilities include delivering new features, responding to community feedback, and influencing product roadmaps. The position offers opportunities for growth, remote work, and benefits such as equity and bonuses.
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This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants from the USA EST time zones only at this time.
About Grafana Frontend and the squad
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.
Dashboards Core
Our mission is to provide a reliable runtime for dashboards. We are responsible for the end user experience of loading and exploring a dashboard, but also for the developer experience of those who use our building blocks.
What we do:
- Dashboards product: We build and evolve the engine and components behind the Grafana dashboard experience and developer platform.
- Shaping the Foundation: we support internal teams building on top of the Scenes library and the dashboard model. We maintain the dashboard schema, ensure consistency, and collaborate across squads to evolve this definition and unlock powerful capabilities.
- 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.
- Performance is non-negotiable: Dashboards must feel fast, always.
- 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.
The role:
As a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, you will:
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability.
- Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
- Respond to community and customers who raise bug reports, feature requests or escalations.
We would be excited if you bring:
- You have experience with building frontend applications (ideally using React / TypeScript) using best practices, documentation and testing.
- You are proactive and have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product in a self-driven way with a design oriented mindset.
- You are pragmatic, curious, and enjoy balancing engineering tradeoffs.
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication.
- You value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape.
- You are eager to learn and grow. There is a lot of room for growth and development.
- You know how to transform ideas into working code. you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself.
- You enjoy working on complex solutions.
- You enjoy working as a team. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. Supporting each other when needed.
- You care about our community of users and contributors.
You would stand out if you can demonstrate
- You are organised and have a strong sense of accountability
- You are familiar with dashboards, stateful runtimes, or schema-based architecture.
- Have worked on APIs, SDKs, or libraries used by other developers.
- You have experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering.
- You have experience and techniques to deal with disruptions - our squad triage can get busy with bug reports, feature requests and customer escalations.
- You are used to working in evolving & fast-paced environments, and can adapt to changing priorities.
We understand that you may not have experience on all of the above technologies. Please do apply even if you do not match some of the above criteria.
In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 153,729 - CAD 184,475. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.
*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.
About Grafana Labs: 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).
Grafana Labs
Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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