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

Details

Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to work on Grafana Cloud Database Observability. The role primarily focuses 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 squad builds experiences that help 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.
• 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 responsibilities, incident response, and learning from incidents.
• Provide technical support during customer escalations and identify areas of user friction.
• Collaborate with other squads on shared dependencies and contribute to design proposals, demos, and technical discussions.
• Use AI coding assistants for prototyping, test generation, refactoring, documentation, and incident follow-ups within security and quality guidelines.
• 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.
• Strong focus on maintainability, readability, automated testing, and secure development practices.
• Experience delivering complex technical projects and mentoring other engineers.
• Clear communication skills in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
• Experience operating software in production, participating in on-call rotations, supporting production systems, and responding to incidents.
• Ability to work independently on complex engineering problems.
• A pragmatic, user-focused approach based on short feedback loops: 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 as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo.
• Experience working in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Technologies

• TypeScript
• React
• Go
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Loki
• Tempo
• SQL
• Database observability and performance monitoring

Benefits

• Base compensation in the UK of £94,000–£118,000 per year.
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• 100% remote work and a global 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 pathways and an open-source-oriented culture.