Senior Frontend Engineer - Grafana Dashboards Core (Remote, Canada EST)

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

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Frontend team to enhance the user experience of their observability product. The ideal candidate will design and maintain critical systems and deliver innovative features. This remote role encourages candidates from Canada who are eager to influence the development process while working in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with frontend applications, ideally using React and TypeScript.
• Ability to deliver projects independently and self-driven.
• Proficient in managing complex solutions and community engagement.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain systems ensuring reliability and performance.
• Deliver new features and iterate based on feedback.
• Engage with community for issue resolution and feature requests.

Skills

Frontend development

React

TypeScript

Communication

Autonomy

Education

Relevant degree in Software Engineering

Job description

Senior Frontend Engineer - Grafana Dashboards Core (Remote, Canada EST)

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

About Grafana Frontend and the squad

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.

The role:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, you will:

• 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.

We would be excited if you bring:

• 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.

You would stand out if you can demonstrate

• 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.

We understand that you may not have experience on all of the above technologies. Please do apply even if you do not match some of the above criteria.

In 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 .

*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.

About Grafana Labs: 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 theGrafana Enterprise Stack , both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir ), logs (Grafana Loki ), and traces (Grafana Tempo ).

Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out ourcareers page .

About Grafana Labs: 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 theGrafana Enterprise Stack , both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir ), logs (Grafana Loki ), and traces (Grafana Tempo ). Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out ourcareers page . Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

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