Staff Frontend Engineer Observability Grafana Cloud | UK | Remote
Offer summary
Qualifications:
At least a couple of years of experience as a Senior Frontend Engineer., Proficiency in TypeScript and React for building user interfaces., Good understanding of web application security best practices., Experience with end-to-end testing and CI/CD pipelines..Key responsibilities:
- Collaborate with product and design teams to develop user interfaces.
- Implement visual designs using reusable components.
- Improve and expand core libraries and integrations.
- Work on frontend for cloud products and open-source projects.
Job description
Grafana Labs is a remotefirst, opensource 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 selfmanaged with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
Staff Frontend Engineer Observability Grafana Cloud
What is Grafana Cloud?
Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.
The Observability Frontend team is focused on making data intake into Grafana easier by providing data source integrations with prebuilt dashboards and alerts for common use cases. We want customers to easily and reliably monitor all of their servers and applications with Grafana Cloud.
Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.
The Observability Frontend team is focused on making data intake into Grafana easier by providing data source integrations with prebuilt dashboards and alerts for common use cases. We want customers to easily and reliably monitor all of their servers and applications with Grafana Cloud.
We own the Grafana Cloud integrations which provide easy to use prebuilt dashboards and alerts to monitor a host of popular observability targets as well as our SaaS integrations which are completely hosted solutions. The team is also responsible for our AWS Observability solution, Kubernetes, Asserts and new emerging monitoring products.
Requirements -
You are comfortable working in a remotefirst company; communication is key.
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For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus. You can contribute to a discussion, disagree constructively, and commit to the team’s decision. You are able to communicate design decisions clearly in written and spoken English.
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You have at least a couple of years of experience as a Senior Frontend engineer. We are a team working remotely, on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world – the ability to work on your own is crucial.
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You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a usercentered approach. You easily build an understanding of the users’ context and goals which will help you build the right solution with the maximum value.
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You know how to transform ideas into working code – you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself.
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You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and who care deeply about their workflows. You value code maintainability, readability & automation.
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You are able to troubleshoot modern web application issues and work with profilers, debuggers, bundlers, and testing libraries.
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You have a strong understanding of web application security best practices and can identify and mitigate common vulnerabilities. You are committed to writing secure code and are familiar with tools and techniques to ensure security at every stage of development.
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You have experience with endtoend testing, ensuring that the entire flow of an application functions as expected. You are comfortable setting up and maintaining E2E testing frameworks, writing comprehensive test cases, and integrating these tests into the CICD pipeline to maintain highquality standards.
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Familiarity with Linux and any of Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB or Elasticsearch is also an advantage.
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What youll be doing
As a Frontend Engineer, you will be working on the frontend for one of our cloud products. You could also be contributing to one of our opensource projects.
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Collaborate with Product, UX, and graphic designers to turn their designs into great user experiences.
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Implement visual designs using clean, reusable components.
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Expand and improve our core libraries that other teams and the plugin ecosystem depend on. (Examples: Page layouts, menus, drawer, plugin build tools.)
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Regularly attend meetings with colleagues from different time zones.
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Technologies youll work with
- React
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- TypeScript
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- Redux
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Nice to have technologies
- Storybook
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- Emotion & Sass
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- RxJS
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- Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright
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- Webpack
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- Golang experience
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In the UK, the base compensation range for this role is £100,930 £121,116. 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.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
- 100% Remote, Global Culture As a remoteonly company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
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- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a highgrowth, everevolving environment.
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- Transparent Communication – Expect open decisionmaking and regular companywide updates.
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- InnovationDriven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
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- Open Source Roots – Built on communitydriven values that shape how we work.
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- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
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- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
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- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
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- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
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- InPerson onboarding We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
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- Balance is Key We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
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Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
#LIRemote
For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our privacy policy.
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You are comfortable working in a remotefirst company; communication is key.
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For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus. You can contribute to a discussion, disagree constructively, and commit to the team’s decision. You are able to communicate design decisions clearly in written and spoken English.
-
You have at least a couple of years of experience as a Senior Frontend engineer. We are a team working remotely, on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world – the ability to work on your own is crucial.
-
You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a usercentered approach. You easily build an understanding of the users’ context and goals which will help you build the right solution with the maximum value.
-
You know how to transform ideas into working code – you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself.
-
You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and who care deeply about their workflows. You value code maintainability, readability & automation.
-
You are able to troubleshoot modern web application issues and work with profilers, debuggers, bundlers, and testing libraries.
-
You have a strong understanding of web application security best practices and can identify and mitigate common vulnerabilities. You are committed to writing secure code and are familiar with tools and techniques to ensure security at every stage of development.
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You have experience with endtoend testing, ensuring that the entire flow of an application functions as expected. You are comfortable setting up and maintaining E2E testing frameworks, writing comprehensive test cases, and integrating these tests into the CICD pipeline to maintain highquality standards.
-
Familiarity with Linux and any of Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB or Elasticsearch is also an advantage.
-
-
Collaborate with Product, UX, and graphic designers to turn their designs into great user experiences.
-
Implement visual designs using clean, reusable components.
-
Expand and improve our core libraries that other teams and the plugin ecosystem depend on. (Examples: Page layouts, menus, drawer, plugin build tools.)
-
Regularly attend meetings with colleagues from different time zones.
-
- React
- TypeScript
- Redux
-
- Storybook
- Emotion & Sass
- RxJS
- Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright
- Webpack
- Golang experience
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- 100% Remote, Global Culture As a remoteonly company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a highgrowth, everevolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decisionmaking and regular companywide updates.
- InnovationDriven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on communitydriven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- InPerson onboarding We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
-
Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
#LIRemote
For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our privacy policy.
In the UK, the base compensation range for this role is £100,930 £121,116. 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.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
Nice to have technologies
Technologies youll work with
What youll be doing
As a Frontend Engineer, you will be working on the frontend for one of our cloud products. You could also be contributing to one of our opensource projects.
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Required profile
Experience
Other Skills
- Enthusiasm
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Problem Solving
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