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

Details

Grafana Labs is scaling Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform integrating metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. The Database Observability squad builds products that help users understand database health and performance, identify slow queries, and troubleshoot issues through clear, actionable insights.

This is a remote opportunity open to applicants in the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Germany. The primary focus is frontend engineering, with opportunities to contribute across the stack, including APIs and backend functionality.

Responsibilities

• Own technical projects from problem framing through rollout, including gathering user feedback and measuring outcomes.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Product Design, and backend engineers to build intuitive user experiences with clean, reusable components.
• Contribute to supporting APIs and backend functionality where needed.
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and technical writing.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Provide technical support during customer escalations and identify areas of user friction.
• Collaborate with other squads on shared dependencies and design proposals.
• Share the team’s work through demos and technical discussions.
• Use AI coding assistants for prototyping, test generation, refactoring, documentation, and incident follow-ups in accordance with security and code-quality guidelines.

Requirements

• Strong frontend engineering experience across the stack.
• Experience building and maintaining production web applications with React and TypeScript.
• Comfort contributing to backend services and APIs.
• Commitment to maintainability, readability, automated testing, and secure development practices.
• Experience delivering complex projects and mentoring other engineers.
• Clear communication skills for a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
• Experience operating software in production, participating in on-call, supporting production systems, and responding to incidents.
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems with minimal supervision.
• User-focused and pragmatic approach, using short feedback loops to analyze, design, deliver, learn, and iterate.
• Practical experience using AI coding tools, including validating their output and sharing effective practices.
• Interest in contributing to the Grafana community.

Bonus Qualifications

• Open-source contribution or maintainership experience.
• Interest in observability, including metrics, logs, and traces, and experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms.
• Experience with databases, SQL, or database performance monitoring.
• Experience building backend services in Go.
• Experience using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo on call or in a homelab.
• Experience working in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Benefits

• Germany base compensation range of €100,000–€125,000 per year.
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• 100% remote work and a global culture.
• Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants.
• Career growth pathways.
• In-person onboarding.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days where applicable.
• Transparent communication, empowered teams, and an open-source culture.