Staff Field Engineer | Netherlands | Remote

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 158,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

30 days annual leave

Grafana Shutdown Days

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Field Engineer to advise on strategic deals, craft reference architectures, and own end-to-end technical enablement across Grafana technologies. You will architect live demo environments, influence product direction, and mentor field engineers while operating with broad autonomy in a remote, global setting.

The role requires deep Grafana and observability expertise, strong cloud and IaC skills (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), Linux proficiency, and a track record

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical roles with at least 2 years as a Senior Field Engineer or equivalent.
• Subject Matter Expert in Grafana Platform with deep Observability knowledge.
• Experience creating and maintaining field-facing enablement content and training assets.
• Strong programming/scripting ability and understanding of the modern SDLC.
• Proficient with Linux and common tooling; familiar with AI-assisted coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Advise on strategic deals and customer engagements with Solution Engineers and Architects.
• Be a SME in Grafana technologies and build reference architectures.
• Create and curate technical training content and enablement materials.
• Architect and maintain live demo environments and POV infrastructure.
• Influence product direction and surface enablement gaps for roadmap planning.
• Present at marketing events and provide best practices to customers.

Skills

Senior Field Engineer

Grafana SME

Observability

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AI-assisted coding

Linux

Solution Engineering collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

The Opportunity:

The Field Engineering team works closely with our Presales Solution Engineering team, as well as Product and Marketing, to ensure the SE's have the tools, collateral, enablement and experts they need to close business. If you've ever served in a Technical Presales role for a software company, you know just how much knowledge you are expected to have, demos you need to show, workshops you need to execute on, etc. The Field Engineering team maintains the backend systems, content creation and deep subject matter expertise that enables the Solution Engineering team to scale and focus on direct customer selling, community building, learning, and other adoption and revenue-focused activities. As a Staff Field Engineer, you are viewed by Sales and FE leadership as being in the top 20% of the field team, operating with little to no supervision on the company's most strategic engagements and serving as a mentor to Senior Field Engineers and Solution Engineers.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Advise on and support some of Grafana's most strategic deals and customer engagements, collaborating with Solution Engineers and Observability Architects on the company's most complex technical challenges with no supervision.
• Serve as a company-recognized Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one area of the Grafana Platform, and deep knowledge across multiple Grafana technologies, building new reference architectures from scratch and overcoming competitive objections in the field
• Proven ability to craft and deliver compelling value based stories to help the sales team technically close deals.
• Own end-to-end creation and curation of technical training content (workshops, how-to guides, demo scripts) for one or more product areas, and establish a repeatable content review cadence in partnership with Enablement and Product Management to keep materials aligned with the product roadmap
• Architect, engineer, and maintain a live production environment that supports demo, workshop, and POV infrastructure at scale, ensuring reliability, security, and uptime.
• Act as a key influencer in product direction, helping key customers adopt newer technologies, and represent Field Engineering in Product planning cycles to surface enablement gaps and shape investment priorities
• Serve as a presenter for Strategic Marketing events (presentations, panels, webinars, conferences, blogs) as an ambassador for Grafana
• Provide technical guidance for a specific product area to Solution Engineers, Observability Architects and customers, and present best practices to customers
• Help update and improve product documentation, and contribute back to the organization through white papers, blogs, and product direction input
• Mentor Senior and Staff Solution Engineers and Field Engineers

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Minimum of 8+ years of related technical experience, including 2+ years in a Senior Field Engineer role (or equivalent), serving as a SRE, Developer, Architect and/or successful presales Solution Architect. OSS development experience is a plus.
• Excellent understanding of Grafana and associated technologies, with recognized Subject Matter Expert (SME) depth in at least one area of the Grafana Platform; deep working knowledge across multiple technologies in the Observability space (e.g. Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Elastic, Splunk, Datadog, etc.)
• Expert-level knowledge in at least one adjacent domain (e.g. IoT, AI/ML) beyond the core observability stack, and demonstrated domain knowledge across the broader Grafana Ecosystem
• Has created and maintained at least one product training asset (workshop, guide, or structured content) that has been adopted by the broader technical field organization
• Demonstrated experience partnering cross-functionally with Product Management and Engineering to produce and maintain field-facing enablement content and influence roadmap priorities
• Comfortable with at least one modern programming language, and a strong understanding of the modern software development lifecycle, including debugging and investigation
• Working familiarity with Linux, including common tools
• Practical experience using AI tools to generate and review code and to accelerate day-to-day tasks, while retaining full ownership of final decisions and quality criteria for the resulting work
• Able to architect a modern application on one of the primary cloud providers (AWS, Azure or GCP), including IaC tools such as Terraform, understanding the tradeoffs between build vs. buy, and the technologies that make up that architecture such as Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless, Microservices and more
• Proven track record building and delivering strategic technical content (workshops, demos, decks, webinars, videos) for technical audiences, including complex POVs and content that overcomes competitive objections
• Deep understanding of the sales process, with the ability to anticipate and proactively address challenges in complex, strategic sales cycles

In the Netherlands, the OTE compensation range for this role is 137,000 EUR - 165,000 EUR. 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. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation 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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