Senior Full Stack Engineer – Database Observability, Grafana Cloud

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of technical projects from defining the problem to deployment, which includes gathering user feedback and measuring results.

• Work collaboratively with Product Management, Product Design, and backend engineers to create user-friendly experiences.

• Develop clean, reusable frontend components while also contributing to supporting APIs and backend functionalities.

• Mentor and partner with engineers through code reviews, design critiques, collaborative work, and technical direction.

• Participate in on-call duties for software developed by the team.

• Assist in incident response and capture lessons from incidents.

• Provide technical assistance during customer escalations.

• Identify customer pain points and work on resolving them.

• Collaborate with other teams on shared dependencies.

• Contribute to design proposals, demonstrations, and technical discussions.

• Create database observability experiences that simplify the exploration and understanding of database telemetry.

• Transform ideas from exploration to production, enhancing them based on customer input.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong frontend engineering background with experience throughout the technology stack.

• Proven experience in building and maintaining production web applications using React and TypeScript.

• Comfortable with contributing to backend services and APIs.

• Emphasis on maintainability, readability, automated testing, and secure development practices.

• Demonstrated experience in delivering complex projects.

• Experience in mentoring fellow engineers.

• Excellent communication skills in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.

• Experience in on-call support for software in a production setting.

• Proven track record of ensuring reliability and responding effectively to incidents.

• Ability to solve intricate engineering challenges with minimal oversight.

• Practical experience with AI coding tools and validating their outputs.

• Interest in contributing to the Grafana community.

• Experience in open-source contributions or maintainership is a plus.

• Interest in observability and familiarity with Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms is advantageous.

• Experience with databases, SQL, or database performance monitoring is beneficial.

• Experience in building backend services using Go is a plus.

• Experience utilizing Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo in an on-call capacity is an advantage.

• Experience working in a fully remote, globally distributed team is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• Company-funded budget for AI coding assistants.

• Access to cutting-edge models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

• 100% remote work culture with global reach.

• Opportunities for career advancement.

• In-person onboarding experience.

• 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.

• Transparent communication with regular updates across the company.

• Autonomy and support to drive innovation.

• Empowered teams built on trust.

• Accessible leadership.

• Collaborative global teamwork.

• Involvement in the open-source community.