Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies - including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay - manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

You will bring your software engineering expertise to develop and maintain the tooling that powers our portfolio of cloud integrations and observability apps; working to develop, maintain and scale our infrastructure observability features in Grafana Cloud.

• Develop and maintain features as part of Observability solutions in Grafana Cloud.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of high-quality, scalable integrations for various infrastructure components, databases, and applications
• Build prototypes and present your ideas as part of a cross-functional team
• Stay up to date with the latest cloud native technologies and development methodologies
• Represent Grafana Labs in meetups, and conferences and social media forums

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

At Grafana Labs, we define senior roles via the scope of their business impact more than via their expertise or their specific activities. So the most important thing we are looking for in an engineer is the ability to take ownership. You will need to drive technical implementations working with the upstream community and contribute to business conversations, helping shape the long-term strategy.

• You have a passion for observability and like to share your knowledge by writing documentation and blog posts.
• You would like to become an active member of various Open Source communities, including OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
• You’re curious and you enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks, setting up examples, and figuring out how things work.
• You actively mentor other team members, identifying areas for focus and improvement.

In Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 73,000 - EUR 92,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs’ success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

• Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.