Senior Full Stack Engineer | Database Observability, Grafana Cloud | Germany | Remote

Job4Travelers; Boca Raton (FL); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AI tools budget

Remote work

30 days annual leave

In-person onboarding

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Frontend Engineer for Grafana Cloud Observability. This fully remote Europe role targets CET-friendly overlaps with UK, Ireland, Spain, and Germany, and focuses on delivering frontend experiences with TypeScript and React while collaborating with Go back-end services.

You will own end-to-end frontend features, mentor peers, participate in on-call, and contribute to product quality in a globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend development experience.
• Strong knowledge of React and TypeScript.
• Ability to work in a fully remote, async environment.

Responsibilities

• Own technical projects from problem framing through rollout and user feedback.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and backend engineers to build intuitive user experiences.
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers and contribute to code reviews.
• Participate in on-call for the software you help build and respond to incidents.
• Support customers by addressing high-friction areas and contributing to improvement proposals.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Frontend development

Go back-end exposure

Tools

Go

Job description

Frontend Engineer at Grafana Labs - Remote Europe — Remote

Async-First & Fully Remote: Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company with teammates across 40+ countries, making this one of the most nomad-compatible engineering roles available. The culture explicitly values asynchronous communication, transparency, and written clarity — hallmarks of a truly async-friendly workplace, not just a "remote-tolerant" one.

Timezone Considerations: The role targets the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Germany, suggesting a rough CET/GMT working window. While no fixed hours are stated, you'll need reasonable overlap with European teammates and product collaborators. This likely means being available during core European hours (roughly 9:00–18:00 CET), which suits nomads based in Western Europe, parts of Africa, or even the Americas with flexible schedules.

Visa & Location Flexibility: Since you must be legally eligible to work in one of the four listed countries, full location freedom is limited. However, digital nomad visas exist in Spain (the "Startup Act" nomad visa) and Germany has a freelancer visa pathway. UK's Global Talent Visa is another option. Ireland's warm welcome for tech workers also makes it accessible.

Salary vs. Nomad COL (Germany benchmark, €100K–€125K):

• Lisbon: ~€2,500–3,500/month comfortable living — this salary offers strong savings potential even after Portuguese taxes.
• Barcelona: ~€2,800–3,800/month — solid lifestyle at a comfortable margin given Spain is an eligible country.
• Berlin: ~€3,000–4,500/month — tighter but viable, and you're already in an eligible country.

The company-funded AI tools budget is a practical perk for productivity on the road. No explicit coworking or equipment stipend is mentioned, so confirm those during the interview.

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. Customers including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X .

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 applications from the UK, Ireland, Spain and Germany.

About Grafana Cloud Observability

Grafana Cloud is our fully managed observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to use the best open source observability software — including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo — without the overhead of installing, maintaining, and scaling their own observability stack.

Within the Observability department, we build products that help customers understand and troubleshoot their applications and infrastructure. We work closely with product management, design, and other engineering squads to provide seamless and highly curated experiences for our customers.

The Squad: Database Observability

We build and evolve Grafana Cloud Database Observability. We want to help users understand the health and performance of their databases, identify slow queries, and troubleshoot issues through clear, actionable insights.

As a frontend engineer on the squad, you'll build experiences that make complex database telemetry easy to explore and understand. You'll work closely with backend engineers, product management, and design to take ideas from early exploration through to production and improve them based on customer feedback.

Our frontend stack is primarily TypeScript and React, interacting with backends written in Go. Your primary focus will be frontend engineering, with opportunities to work across the stack, contributing to APIs and backend functionality to deliver complete customer experiences. Frontend engineers at Grafana also have opportunities to contribute to open source communities.

The Opportunity:

• Own technical projects from problem framing through rollout, including getting user feedback and measuring whether what you shipped actually worked.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Product Design, and backend engineers to build intuitive user experiences using clean, reusable components, contributing to supporting APIs and backend functionality where needed.
• 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 software you help build, contributing to incident response and learning from incidents.
• Provide technical support in customer escalations and help identify areas of high friction to address.
• Collaborate with other squads on shared dependencies, contribute to design proposals, and share the team's work through demos and technical discussions.

We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), 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. You'll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• We highly value those who are intellectually curious, who default to transparency, possess a high bias towards action, and who are kind and enjoy working as a team.
• Strong frontend engineering experience, with experience across the stack. You have experience building and maintaining production web applications with React and TypeScript, and are comfortable contributing to backend services and APIs. You value maintainability, readability, automated testing, and secure development practices.
• Technical ownership. You have solid experience delivering complex projects, mentoring other engineers, and helping teammates work more effectively. You communicate clearly in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
• You take responsibility for operating the software you have built. You have experience being on-call, supporting software in production, ensuring reliability, and responding to incidents as needed.
• You enjoy working on complex solutions and building production software systems. You're a self-starter, capable of tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision.
• User focus and pragmatism. You break complex problems into short feedback loops: analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn, iterate.
• AI experience with a practical mindset. You use AI coding tools thoughtfully to improve productivity and quality, validate their output, and share useful practices with teammates.
• You care about our community of users and contributors and are keen to be an active Grafana Community Contributor.

Bonus Points For:

• Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open.
• An active interest in observability (metrics, logs, and traces) and experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms.
• Experience with databases, SQL, or database performance monitoring.
• Experience building backend services in Go.
• Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo in a previous role (or on a homelab).
• Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Compensation & Rewards:

In Germany, the base compensation range for this role is €100,000 – €125,000. 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 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: 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.

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Which countries are eligible for this remote Frontend Engineer role at Grafana Labs? Grafana Labs is accepting applications from candidates based in the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Germany for this role. Compensation ranges may vary by country, so your recruiter will confirm the specifics for your location. What is the salary range for this role? In Germany, the base salary range is €100,000–€125,000 annually. All roles also include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). For other eligible countries, your recruiter will share the country-specific range at the start of the process. Is this role fully remote or does it require going into an office? This is a fully remote role at a 100% remote company. Grafana Labs has no physical office requirement, though there is in-person onboarding when you first join. What is the tech stack for this Frontend Engineer position? The primary frontend stack is TypeScript and React, with backends written in Go. You'll also work with observability tools like Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and Grafana itself, with access to AI coding assistants from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Does this role require on-call duties? Yes, the role includes on-call participation for the software you help build, contributing to incident response and post-incident learning. This is a standard expectation for engineers on the squad.

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