Staff Frontend Engineer – Remote in Winnipeg

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions.

We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

The Grafana Frontend group is responsible for the end-to-end user experience on Grafana, the observability product, and Grafana, the platform used by many engineers to build plugins. Our squads are responsible for dashboards, data visualization and manipulation, navigation across the ecosystem, sharing experience, content search, organization, and more.

The squad: DataViz builds and evolves the Grafana Visualizations. We want to give our users the ability to visualize their data in a way that’s easy to set up and understand, so they can pull out interesting and valuable insights. Some of our recent projects include:

• Externalisation of our core visualization to be independently releasable and remove interdependencies.
• GraphViz: Visualize relationships, flows, and architectures using the Graphviz DOT language with live metrics from any Grafana data source.
• Raising the bar on quality and reliability: improving our test coverage, introducing a new testing strategy and tooling for visual regressions.
• Refresh the look and feel of our existing visualizations, e.g., Table and Gauge.

Our work is open source, and you can browse grafana/grafana on GitHub directly to see how we build our software. Our stack is primarily Typescript, React, and uPlot and eCharts for our visualizations.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, including getting user feedback and measuring whether what you shipped actually worked.
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers. Raise the engineering bar through code review, design feedback, pairing on hard problems, and writing that leaves the team better than you found it.
• Participate in on-call for the services you help build, and be a force multiplier in incident response and post-incident learning.
• Provide technical support in customer escalations and help us identify areas of high friction to address.
• Cross-squad collaboration: Represent the team's work outside the team, write the design proposals, run the demos, and make the case for our roadmap in cross-team discussions.

We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow, backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always with strong code review and quality standards.

What makes you a great fit:

• Intellectually curious, default to transparency, possess a high bias towards action, and enjoy working as a team.
• Technical leadership: solid experience leading teams through projects, mentoring other engineers, and serving as a force-multiplier.
• Clear communication in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
• Take responsibility for operating the software you have built.
• Experience being on-call, supporting software in production, ensuring reliability, and responding to incidents as needed.
• Enjoy working on complex solutions, building production software systems.
• Self-starter, capable of tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision.
• User focus and pragmatism: break complex problems into short feedback loops: analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn, iterate.
• AI experience with a practical mindset: familiar with AI technologies and frameworks, focusing on delivering high-quality solutions that work in the real world.
• Active interest in observability (Metrics, Logs, and Traces) and experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms.
• Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo in a previous role.
• Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

In Canada, the compensation range for this role is $186,368 - $223,642 CAD. 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.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture: A remote-only company, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization: Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication: Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven: Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots: Built on community-driven 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.
• In-Person onboarding: Thrive from day 1 with fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
• Balance is Key: Operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law.