Senior Full Stack Engineer | Database Observability, Grafana Cloud | Germany | Remote

Overview

Senior Full Stack Engineer on the Database Observability squad at Grafana Labs, building frontend experiences that make complex database telemetry easy to explore, with opportunities to contribute to APIs and backend functionality.

What you'll do

• Own technical projects from problem framing through rollout, including getting user feedback and measuring whether what you shipped worked.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Product Design and backend engineers to build intuitive user experiences using clean, reusable components.
• Contribute to supporting APIs and backend functionality where needed.
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers.
• Raise the engineering bar through code review, design feedback, pairing on hard problems, and writing.
• Participate in on-call for the software you help build, contributing to incident response and learning from incidents.
• Provide technical support in customer escalations and help identify areas of high friction.
• Collaborate with other squads on shared dependencies, contribute to design proposals, and share the team's work through demos and technical discussions.
• Use AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow, within security guidelines.

What you'll need

• Strong frontend engineering experience, with experience across the stack.
• Experience building and maintaining production web applications with React and TypeScript.
• Comfort contributing to backend services and APIs.
• Value for maintainability, readability, automated testing and secure development practices.
• Solid experience delivering complex projects and mentoring other engineers.
• Clear communication in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
• Experience being on-call, supporting software in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents.
• Self-starter, capable of tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision.
• Break complex problems into short feedback loops: analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn, iterate.
• Practical experience using AI coding tools, validating their output and sharing useful practices with teammates.
• Care about the community of users and contributors and interest in being an active Grafana Community Contributor.

Nice to have

• 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 with databases, SQL or database performance monitoring.
• Experience building backend services in Go.
• 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.

Details

• Remote role in Germany; the company is also interested in applications from the UK, Ireland and Spain.
• Base compensation range in Germany is € 100,000 - €125,000, varying by level, experience and skillset; RSUs included.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.