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

Job4Travelers; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs, a fully remote company, seeks a Frontend Engineer to build elegant UI for Grafana Cloud Database Observability. You’ll work with TypeScript and React, ship features across time zones, and help users understand data health with fast, intuitive dashboards.

This role emphasizes async collaboration, on-call duties, and mentorship of peers, with opportunities to contribute to open source and to shape the frontend experience of a leading observability platform.

Qualifications

• Proficient in TypeScript and React with a strong UI focus.
• Experience building observable dashboards or similar frontends.
• Ability to work asynchronously across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own frontend features from design to production and measure outcomes.
• Collaborate with product, design, and backend engineers to deliver cohesive UX.
• Mentor other engineers and uphold coding standards.
• Participate in on-call for the services you build.
• Provide frontend input for API design and backend integrations.
• Contribute to Grafana Cloud observability experiences and open source.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Frontend development

Tools

Go

Job description

Frontend Engineer at Grafana Labs - Remote Europe — Remote

Async-First, Genuinely Remote: Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company with teammates across 40+ countries — this isn't "remote-friendly" lip service. The role explicitly values async communication, making it well-suited to digital nomads who work across time zones. On-call duties exist, but Grafana's global team structure suggests these are shared and rotated rather than tied to fixed daytime hours.

Timezone Considerations: The hiring scope is limited to the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Germany — all within UTC to UTC+2. This means you'll need to be reachable during CET/GMT business hours for collaboration. Nomads based in Lisbon (UTC+1), the Canary Islands, or even Tallinn can align comfortably. Southeast Asian destinations like Bangkok (UTC+7) would create a significant overlap challenge and fall outside the allowed-country scope.

Visa & Location Strategy: Since only UK, IE, ES, and DE are accepted, your options are structured around EU/UK residence:

• Spain offers a Digital Nomad Visa ("Startup Law") for non-EU nationals earning above ~€2,334/month — this salary easily qualifies.
• Germany has a Freiberufler (freelance) visa pathway, though this is a salaried role.
• EU/EEA citizens can freely reside in Spain, Germany, or Ireland without a special visa.

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.

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