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

Details

Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer for the Database Observability squad within Grafana Cloud Observability. This remote role focuses primarily on frontend engineering, with opportunities to contribute across the stack to APIs and backend functionality.

Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform integrating metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. The Database Observability team helps users understand database health and performance, identify slow queries, and troubleshoot issues through clear, actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Own technical projects from problem framing through rollout, including gathering user feedback and measuring outcomes.
• Build intuitive user experiences with Product Management, Product Design, and backend engineering teams.
• Develop clean, reusable components and contribute to supporting APIs and backend functionality.
• Mentor and collaborate with engineers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and technical writing.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and production reliability work.
• 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 standards.

Requirements

• Strong frontend engineering experience building and maintaining production web applications with React and TypeScript.
• Experience across the stack and comfort contributing to backend services and APIs.
• A focus on maintainability, readability, automated testing, and secure development practices.
• Experience delivering complex projects, mentoring engineers, and taking technical ownership.
• Clear communication skills for a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
• Experience operating software in production, participating in on-call work, supporting systems, and responding to incidents.
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems with minimal supervision.
• A pragmatic, user-focused approach using short feedback loops to analyze, design, deliver, learn, and iterate.
• Practical experience with 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.
• 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 fully remote, globally distributed teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• Ireland base compensation range: EUR 107,000–134,000 per year.
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) included with all roles.
• 100% remote work and a global collaborative culture.
• Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants.
• In-person onboarding.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days.
• Career growth opportunities and a transparent, open-source-oriented work environment.

The role is remote, with applications welcomed from the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Germany.