Staff Frontend Engineer - Grafana DataViz | Canada | Remote

grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote with global team

AI coding tools within security policy

Career development pathways

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Lead Frontend Engineer to drive the data-visualization product used to explore observability data. This role blends hands-on development with technical leadership, shaping multi-quarter initiatives and improving visualization quality.

The position is fully remote for candidates in the United States or Canada, aligned to Eastern or Central time zones. You will mentor engineers, collaborate across squads, and contribute to operational reliability and user-focused outcomes.

Qualifications

• Staff-level experience delivering production frontend software.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React.
• Experience building data-rich interfaces and interactive visualizations.
• Ability to frame ambiguous problems and drive outcomes.
• Mentoring engineers and raising engineering quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex frontend initiatives from problem definition to delivery and measurement.
• Build and evolve interactive visualizations focusing on usability, performance, and reliability.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions and guidance on decisions.
• Collaborate across squads, present designs and influence shared technical direction.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities, incident response, and post-incident learning.
• Contribute to testing strategy and improve visual regression coverage and workflows.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Frontend leadership

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

User-focused design

Tools

uPlot

Apache ECharts

Job description

Role overview

Lead frontend engineering for a data-visualization product used to explore, interpret, and communicate observability data. The role combines hands-on development with technical leadership: shaping multi-quarter initiatives, improving visualization quality and reliability, partnering across engineering teams, and helping ensure shipped work solves meaningful user problems. This is a remote position for candidates in Canada or the United States, aligned to Eastern or Central time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex technical initiatives from initial problem definition through delivery, rollout, user feedback, and outcome measurement.
• Build and evolve interactive visualizations and related frontend experiences, with a focus on usability, clarity, performance, and reliability.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, pairing, written proposals, and guidance on difficult technical decisions.
• Collaborate across squads by presenting designs, demonstrating progress, representing roadmap priorities, and influencing shared technical direction.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities, incident response, post-incident learning, and customer escalation support for the systems and experiences you help build.
• Contribute to testing strategy, visual regression coverage, developer productivity, and ongoing improvements to existing visualization components.

Requirements

• Staff-level experience delivering production frontend software and leading work that spans multiple planning cycles.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React, plus practical experience building data-rich interfaces and interactive visualizations.
• Ability to frame ambiguous problems, make sound technical decisions, and connect engineering work to measurable user outcomes.
• Demonstrated skill in mentoring engineers and raising engineering quality through feedback, collaboration, and clear technical communication.
• Comfort working openly across team boundaries, influencing without relying on formal authority, and supporting operational responsibilities.
• A user-focused approach to balancing product usability, maintainability, performance, and reliability.

Nice to have

• Experience with visualization libraries such as uPlot or Apache ECharts.
• Background in open-source software, observability, dashboards, or developer-facing platforms.
• Experience improving visual regression testing, component quality, or frontend developer workflows.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote work with a globally distributed team and transparent, high-autonomy culture.
• Company-supported AI coding tools within security guidelines.
• In-person onboarding, career development pathways, and a global annual leave policy that includes designated shutdown days.