Senior Frontend Engineer - Grafana Dashboards Core | Canada, EST | Remote

Grafana Labs; Canada; Remote; CAD 153,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading open-source technology company is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer for their remote team. The role involves designing and building critical frontend systems while focusing on user experience and community engagement. Ideal candidates will have significant experience with React and TypeScript, along with a proactive approach to project management. This position offers a competitive salary range and the chance to thrive in a global, remote culture.

Benefits

Equity options

Remote-first environment

30 days annual leave

Transparent communication

Open source culture

Qualifications

• Experience in building frontend applications with React and TypeScript.
• Proactive in project delivery from requirements gathering to shipping.
• Comfortable in a remote-first company with good communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems.
• Deliver new features and iterate based on feedback.
• Influence the roadmap through active contribution.

Skills

Building frontend applications

React

TypeScript

Best practices

Documentation

Testing

Job description

Senior Frontend Engineer - Grafana Dashboards Core | Canada, EST | Remote

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.

This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants from Canada EST time zones only at this time.

The 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 visualisation and manipulation, navigation across the ecosystem, sharing experience, content search,organisation and more.

Our mission is to provide a reliable runtime for dashboards. We are responsible for the end user experience of loading and exploring a dashboard, but also for the developer experience of those who use our building blocks.

What we do:

• Dashboards product: We build and evolve the engine and components behind the Grafana dashboard experience and developer platform.
• Shaping the Foundation: we support internal teams building on top of the Scenes library and the dashboard model. We maintain the dashboard schema, ensure consistency, and collaborate across squads to evolve this definition and unlock powerful capabilities.
• Community Engagement: we listen to the open-source community, we retrieve contributions, and turn feedback into real improvements.
• Operational Excellence: we own the performance, reliability, and maintainability of a system that runs at global scale. We value readability, maintainability and clarity of our code.

How we work:

• No blame: We focus on learning and improving ourselves and our product.
• Better done than perfect: We iterate quickly and deliver value continuously.
• Performance is non-negotiable: Dashboards must feel fast, always.
• User-first: We design for real users solving real problems and we make data-driven decisions.
• Mentorship & Innovation: we grow together through knowledge sharing, mentorship, internal hackathons, and constant learning.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability.
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Respond to community and customers who raise bug reports, feature requests or escalations.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• You have experience with building frontend applications (ideally using React / TypeScript) using best practices, documentation and testing.
• You are proactive and have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product in a self-driven way with a design oriented mindset.
• You are pragmatic, curious, and enjoy balancing engineering tradeoffs.
• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication.
• You value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape.
• You are eager to learn and grow. There is a lot of room for growth and development.
• 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.
• You enjoy working as a team. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. Supporting each other when needed.
• You care about our community of users and contributors.

Bonus Points For:

• You are organised and have a strong sense of accountability
• You are familiar with dashboards, stateful runtimes, or schema-based architecture.
• Have worked on APIs, SDKs, or libraries used by other developers.
• You have experience with developing software that runs in theCloud or some experience with systems engineering.
• You have experience and techniques todeal with disruptions - our squad triage can get busy with bug reports, feature requests and customer escalations.
• You are used to working inevolving & fast-paced environments, and can adapt to changing priorities.

Compensation & Rewards:

In the Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 153,729 - CAD 184,475. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here .

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 remote-only 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 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 - 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.

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