Staff Frontend Engineer - Grafana DataViz | Canada | Remote

Overview

Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives on the DataViz squad of Grafana Frontend, which builds and evolves Grafana's visualizations, as a Staff Frontend Engineer working fully remotely.

What you'll do

• Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, including gathering user feedback and measuring whether what you shipped worked.
• 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 services you help build, and be a force multiplier in incident response and post-incident learning.
• Provide technical support in customer escalations and help identify areas of high friction to address.
• Represent the team's work across squads, write design proposals, run demos, and make the case for the roadmap in cross-team discussions.
• Use AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow, within security guidelines.

What you'll need

• Solid experience leading teams through projects, mentoring other engineers and serving as a force-multiplier.
• Ability to communicate clearly in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
• Experience being on-call, supporting software in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents as needed.
• Experience building production software systems and working on complex solutions.
• Self-starter capable of tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision.
• Ability to break complex problems into short feedback loops: analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn, iterate.
• Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks, with a practical focus on delivering high-quality solutions that work in the real world.
• Care about the community of users and contributors and be keen to become 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 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 position; candidates sought in the US and Canada (EST/CST time zones).
• Compensation in Canada: $186,368 - $223,642 CAD, varying by level, experience and skillset. Roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, 3 of which are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
• In-person onboarding included.