Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. 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 the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
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.
As a Senior Software Engineer in the AWS Data Sources squad, you’ll take a leading role in the development of open-source data source plugins for Grafana.
Grafana is an open-source visualization platform that helps users understand their systems and data through customizable dashboards and alerts. Within the Grafana department, the Data Sources group is responsible for connecting to and querying our vast library of data sources. The AWS Data Sources squad specifically builds and maintains open-source data source plugins that are built in partnership with AWS.
Our mission is to deliver high quality plugins that enable Grafana users to query data directly from AWS and visualize it within Grafana in a unified view. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. You'll have the opportunity to work across the Data Sources team and partner with other squads within the Grafana division to drive innovation and solve complex engineering challenges.
The Opportunity:- Enhancing the querying experience within a Grafana data source
- Investigating and resolving configuration issues
- Supporting the reliability and operations of data sources in Grafana Cloud
- Collaborating with engineers and teams across the Grafana division
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key.
- You are passionate about building user-facing open-source software
- You have professional experience as a Full-stack Engineer with expertise in React, Typescript and microservices (golang is a plus).
- You are someone who is naturally curious, motivated to grow and thrives in a collaborative environment.
- You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows
- AWS products: Cloudwatch, OpenSearch, Redshift, Athena, Aurora, Amazon Prometheus
- Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks
- Frontend technologies: React and TypeScript
- Backend technologies: Go and familiarity with other backend languages
- Configuration technologies: Jsonnet and Terraform
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Monitoring and observability: Familiarity with tools like Grafana, Prometheus or other observability platforms.
In the UK, the base compensation range for this role is GBP 89,083 - GBP 106,899. 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: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization 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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