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

Details

Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join the Database Observability squad within Grafana Cloud Observability. This is a remote opportunity open to applicants in the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Germany.

Grafana Cloud is 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.

The primary focus of this role is frontend engineering, with opportunities to work across the stack. The frontend stack is primarily TypeScript and React, with backends written in Go.

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 using 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 for the software you help build, contributing to incident response and learning from incidents.
• Provide technical support during customer escalations and identify areas of friction to address.
• Collaborate with other squads on shared dependencies and contribute to design proposals, demos, and technical discussions.
• Use AI coding assistants pragmatically for prototyping, test generation, refactoring, documentation, and incident follow-ups while maintaining strong code review and quality standards.
• Contribute to open-source communities and the Grafana Community.

Requirements

• Strong frontend engineering experience with production web applications built using React and TypeScript.
• Experience contributing to backend services and APIs.
• Commitment to maintainability, readability, automated testing, and secure development practices.
• Experience delivering complex projects, mentoring engineers, and providing technical ownership.
• Ability to communicate clearly in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
• Experience operating software in production, participating in on-call, supporting production systems, and responding to incidents.
• Ability to tackle complex engineering problems with minimal supervision.
• User-focused and pragmatic approach, using short feedback loops to analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn, and iterate.
• Practical experience using AI coding tools, including validating their output and sharing effective practices with teammates.
• Intellectual curiosity, transparency, bias toward action, kindness, and a collaborative approach.

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 while on call, including in a homelab.
• Experience working in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Compensation & Rewards

• Spain base compensation range: €85,000–€107,000 per year.
• Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skill set.
• The role includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Compensation ranges are country-specific; recruiters will discuss the applicable pay range and benefits for applicants applying from another listed location.

Benefits

• 100% remote global culture.
• Scaling organization and meaningful work.
• Transparent communication and open decision-making.
• Autonomy and support in an innovation-driven environment.
• Open-source roots and community-driven values.
• Empowered teams with a high-trust, low-ego culture.
• Career growth pathways.
• In-person onboarding.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
• Equal-opportunity employment.