Staff AI Engineer - 2nd Horizon

Details

Grafana Labs is building AI-driven observability and analytics features as part of a skunkworks initiative (2H) to bring observability to broader business use cases via general data analytics. The team focuses on rapid experimentation, iteration, and shipping production-grade AI features that help users discover, organize, and optimize access to large datasets, and expand analytics-focused AI agents for information retrieval and other workflows. This is a remote role considering candidates in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship AI-powered features that handle large datasets and support analytics-focused workflows.
• Build and deliver high-performance, user-facing AI solutions that help users discover, organize, and optimize access to data.
• Rapidly prototype, test, validate with real users, and iterate on LLM- or agent-powered workflows for the data engineering and analytics lifecycle.
• Integrate agentic components with internal tools (e.g., Slack, alerting systems) and collaborate with internal data teams for dogfooding.
• Use AI and automation tools to improve product functionality and development workflows.
• Take ownership of solutions to ensure they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with user workflows.

Requirements

• Experience with LLMs, context engineering, and building applications powered by Generative AI.
• Proven track record of delivering software into production that is actively used by users.
• Exposure to cloud-native environments (examples given: AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.
• Strong software engineering skills, ability to iterate quickly, and a pragmatic, product-focused mindset.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills; ability to operate autonomously in a small, highly iterative team.

Bonus Points

• Experience building or working with agent frameworks or multi-agent workflows.
• Experience as a data analyst or with data platforms (Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, Databricks).
• Experience building tools for data engineering.

Compensation & Rewards

• Base compensation range in the UK: A3100,000 - A3124,000 (actual compensation may vary by level, experience, and skillset). Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits listed by Grafana Labs.

Location & Work Arrangement

• Remote position. Candidates are being considered in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, and the United Kingdom only.
• Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company; the role includes in-person onboarding to meet fellow new hires.

Why Youll Thrive

• Remote global culture, innovation-driven environment, transparent communication, open-source roots, empowered teams, and clear career growth pathways.

Equal Opportunity Employer

• Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer and may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process while continuing manual review of CVs.