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A Sales Engineer (Photonics) is sought to join a leading scientific instrumentation business in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, supporting customers across the UK & Ireland with advanced photonics, laser, optical and test & measurement solutions.The Sales Engineer (Photonics), Harpenden, Hertfordshire, will be expected to develop strong technical and commercial relationships with customers across universities, research institutes, industrial R&D organisations, telecommunications, quantum technology, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. You will combine technical expertise with consultative sales skills to identify opportunities, deliver solutions and drive business growth across a specialist territory.Responsibilities include:Develop and implement territory sales plans to achieve and exceed annual order and gross margin targets.Identify, qualify and manage sales opportunities for photonics, laser and optical instrumentation products.Build strong relationships with universities, research organisations, industrial R&D teams and high-tech manufacturers.Generate new business opportunities through proactive customer engagement, lead generation and follow-up activity.Manage the full sales cycle from initial enquiry through to quotation, negotiation and order placement.Deliver technical presentations, product demonstrations and application support to customers.Represent the company at industry exhibitions, conferences and trade events.Maintain accurate sales forecasts, customer records and opportunity pipelines using CRM systems.Work closely with suppliers, service teams and internal stakeholders to deliver complete customer solutions.Provide market intelligence, customer feedback and competitor insights to support business development activities.Key skills & experience:Degree in Physics, Photonics, Engineering, Electronics, Scientific Instrumentation or a related technical discipline.Previous experience in technical sales, applications engineering or scientific instrumentation sales.Strong understanding of photonics, optics, lasers, test & measurement equipment or related technologies.Experience working with research institutions, universities or high-tech industrial customers would be advantageous.Commercial awareness with the ability to identify, develop and close sales opportunities.Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.Experience using CRM systems and Microsoft Office applications.Strong organisational and territory management abilities.Self-motivated and capable of managing a territory with a high degree of autonomy.Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel throughout the UK & Ireland.How to apply:Apply now for the Sales Engineer (Photonics) role in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Send your CV to or call Adam Dighton on 01582 878821.TPBN1_UKTJ

Technical Sales Engineer £40,000 - £45,000 (£50,000 OTE) + Bonus + Private Healthcare + Company Car + Excellent Company Benefits Home based: (Commutable from: London, Watford, Luton, Chelmsford, Oxford, Reading) Do you have sales experience within photonics or optics looking to join an industry recognised company where you will play a vital role in generating new business? On offer is a fantastic opportunity to join an engineering pioneer who provides a wide range of products to a variety of industries where you will have the opportunity to progress your career and receive full industry training in order to become a technical expert on their cutting-edge range of products. The company, who are market leaders provide their bespoke products nationwide, and are now looking for someone to join their specialist team due to rapid growth. You will be responsible for visiting client sites, building long standing relationships whilst being at the forefront of generating new business. In this highly varied role, you will receive a company car and bonus whilst becoming the technical expert in the industry in order to progress your career in the long term. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with sales experience within photonics or optics that is looking to become the technical expert with full industry training whilst progressing your career within a niche and exciting industry. The Role: • Technical Sales, • Developing and generating new sales, • Provide technical demonstrations to key stakeholders The Person: • Experience within photonics or optics, • Proven technical sales background, • Full UK Driving License Reference: BBBH274405 To apply for this role or to be considered for further roles, please click "Apply Now" or contact [Jake Steele] at Rise Technical Recruitment. Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

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 or self-managed with the , both featuring scalable metrics (), logs (), and traces (_). 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 position. We are looking for candidates in the NASA (EST-only) or EMEA time zones. What is Grafana Cloud? Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack. The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it. What is Grafana Alloy? Alloy is a distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. Its purpose is to collect, process, and export telemetry signals at scale. Alloy combines the strength of leading ecosystems like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, Pyroscope, and more. Alloy is an open source project that is maintained on Github. What You'll Be Doing: • Manage and develop the team of Alloy engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations. This is a remote team, distributed between EMEA and NASA., • Support the Alloy team on their path to closer collaboration with the OpenTelemetry collector community. Address roadblocks., • Collaborate closely with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects are successful with their Alloy journey., • Work closely with product and engineering leadership to ensure Alloy fits seamlessly into the end-to-end user experience for Grafana cloud products., • Provide guidance throughout the project lifecycle from early ideation through planning, execution and post‑launch guiding the team to deliver high‑quality results consistently., • Foster a psychologically safe environment where engineers can learn, experiment and iterate quickly, encouraging innovation and a culture of continuous improvement., • Work across team boundaries by contributing to projects outside your team’s scope and partnering with other functions to solve customer problems. As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software. 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 paired with strong code review and quality standards. You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5.4, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro). What are we looking for in you? • You should have enough domain knowledge in observability and OpenTelemetry to manage a team that will collaborate closely with the OpenTelemetry collector community., • You will be comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, be it technical or product focused., • While you’re great with people and adept at managing relationships, you still keep up-to-date with the latest technical trends and shifts in order to maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face., • Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment, using clear, empathetic communication to build trust, connection, and psychological safety., • Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance to deliver meaningful, high-quality results., • Deeply customer-focused, consistently grounding decisions and technical choices in user needs and real-world impact., • Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability. Comfort with AI-assisted tooling. We embrace AI and agentic development so we expect you to be curious and comfortable using AI-powered tools and ideally have practical experience folding them into a team’s workflow. In the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is GBP 103,709 - GBP 124,651. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed _. #LI-Remote *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. #LI-Remote For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our .

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at and follow us on and _. 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 are looking for candidates in the UK, Spain, Germany or Sweden. What is Grafana Cloud? Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it. In this role, you will be part of the team that designs, builds, and scales our Cloud Observability product suite, providing customers with the ability to collect, visualize, analyze, and understand metrics and logs data from hundreds of cloud provider services. This includes the dashboards, alerts, documentation, and infrastructure while working closely with other teams to ensure seamless experiences. We also strive to incorporate OSS contributions in our work by contributing to projects such as Alloy, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Beyla. The Observability department provides a core building block for customers using Grafana Cloud. As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software. We are looking for engineers that are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team! Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities. About Grafana Labs There are more than 950,000 active installations of Grafana around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a SpaceX launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps companies including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud, or self-managed with Grafana Enterprise Stack. The Grafana stack has grown to include two other open-source projects, Grafana Loki (for logs) and Grafana Tempo (for traces). At Grafana Labs, our engineers have a dedicated career path and do not have to become managers to progress in their career. Senior Software Engineers at Grafana have a large amount of experience across multiple areas. They are able to estimate, plan, coordinate and deliver large tasks spanning multiple systems. They actively coach and mentor other team members in their team and are able to identify and resolve issues with technology and product processes. Key Responsibilities You will bring your passion for observability and software engineering expertise to help us take our infrastructure monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud to the next level. This will include working with our Kubernetes monitoring and Cloud Provider observability solutions. • Design and implement high-quality, scalable integrations for various infrastructure components, databases, and applications, • Create middleware components, SDKs, and libraries that simplify development and maintenance of observability solutions, • When necessary, represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events, • Work with product teams, in addition to design and docs, to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs, • Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions, • Work with other departments including Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience, • Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running, • Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is entirely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude, good communication skills, and transparency are a must. Requirements Minimum Qualifications: • Strong 5+ years of experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but do not require candidates with Go experience. Long term experience in any major language (Python, .NET, Java, Rust, etc) with a willingness to learn Go is acceptable., • In-depth knowledge of at least one major cloud provider, including core services, APIs, identity and access models, networking, and operational patterns, • Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems, • Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software, • Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry), • Experience driving projects from ideation to production., • Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems, • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, • Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management Preferred Qualifications • Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications, • Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration, • Understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts What you’ll bring to the role At Grafana Labs, we define senior roles via the scope of their business impact more than via their expertise or their specific activities. So the most important thing we are looking for in an engineer is the ability to take ownership. You will need to drive technical implementations working with the upstream community and contribute to business conversations, helping shape the long-term strategy. • You have a passion for observability and like to share your knowledge by writing documentation and blog posts., • You love to engage with customers and help them out., • You have excellent communication skills., • You have relevant open source experience, ideally in the observability domain., • You are willing to become an active member of the OpenTelemetry and Prometheus communities., • You’re curious and you enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks, setting up examples, and figuring out how things work., • You have a good understanding of typical production environments. Ideally you have been responsible for operating production services and organizing on-call., • You actively mentor other team members, identifying areas for focus and improvement. In the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is £91,755 - £110,106. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed _. #LI-Remote *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. #LI-Remote For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our .

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at and follow us on and _. 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 are looking for candidates from the UK, Sweden, Spain or Germany. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer - SRE to help us support our highest value Grafana Cloud customers by increasing the reliability of our Cloud databases that are based on Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope. We provide these databases as a SaaS product from AWS, GCP, and Azure across all regions. The SRE team is embedded within the Mimir, Loki, and Tempo squads and focuses on ensuring that Grafana Cloud’s database products deliver exceptional reliability for our highest-SLA customers. In this role, you will: • Partner closely with product engineering squads (embedded model), • Own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments, • Design and implement automation to scale our reliability practices, • Ensuring our customers meet our SLO targets, • Define and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models, • Proactively reduce SLO burn to prevent repeat incidents, • Serving as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents, • Lead customer-impacting incident response and post-incident reviews, • Contribute to design docs and code reviews, • Influence feature design to ensure production scalability and operability, • Build automation to eliminate toil where needed, • Improve alert quality and reduce noisy escalations We seek a staff software engineer operating at the intersection of customer needs, production systems, and product engineering. • 8+ years engineering experience, 4+ in SRE/CRE/production engineering. Strong preference for those with formal customer reliability engineering experience., • Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)., • Strong experience with technical leadership, leading a team through projects, mentoring other engineers on the team and serving as a force-multiplier, • Experience operating multi-tenant systems in production, • Strong experience designing and implementing SLOs, • Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java, etc), • Experience with Linux operating systems internals, and some knowledge of networking, cloud storage, and scaling., • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills., • Experience with calmly and actively participating in blame-free Incident Response, following up on actions, and writing high quality PIRs (Post Incident Reviews, a.k.a. post-mortem documents), • Ability to reason about performance, scaling, and failure modes, • Comfortable working within an engineering team where individuals are encouraged to have a strong sense of autonomy and self-direction., • Ability to partner deeply with product engineering teams, • We highly value those who are intellectually curious, who default to transparency, possess a high bias towards action, and who are also kind (this is important!), • Regular 1:1s to with your manager and colleagues, • Reviewing and creating SLOs, proactively investigating ways in which we can further reduce budget burn for those SLOs, which can be self-directed or as the result of learnings from incidents, and may include improvements to monitoring, automation, increasing self-healing, auto-scaling, etc., • Improve observability of customers within their environments, • Designing and implementing solutions to ensure reliability and scalability of our environments can meet rapidly increasing demands, • Develop fault-tolerant design patterns ensuring that we are considering reliability at all stages of the service lifecycle., • Collaborating with our Engineering Leaders to help define and influence product strategy, roadmaps and technical designs, • Participate in PR review and collaborating with other engineers on their Design Docs, • Teach others about Site Reliability Engineering and communicate best practices to be applied early in development of new features and functionality, • Participate in Incident Response when applicable, including investigation through to resolution, PIR, and communication with customers via Bridge calls where necessary In the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is £103,958 - £124,750. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed _.#LI-Remote #LI-Remote *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. #LI-Remote For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our .

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at and follow us on and _. 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. Staff Software Engineer – Identity and Access, Identity Squads This role is available for candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland and Sweden. The Opportunity: Every day, millions of users rely on Grafana to monitor the health and performance of their critical systems, from software applications to factories and even space shuttles. Our mission is two-fold: to provide a seamless and effortless sign-in experience for all users, and to ensure administrators have complete peace of mind, knowing that every user has secure access to precisely the data and functionality they need. The Identity and Access team at Grafana manages all aspects of authentication and authorization, working across both our open-source and proprietary codebases. The Identity squad, within the team, owns the authentication layer — the protocols and flows that determine how every Grafana user proves who they are. We actively implement cutting-edge authentication protocols such as MCP OAuth (OAuth 2.1), OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and SCIM, rather than relying on off-the-shelf components. We are completely redesigning Grafana’s authentication at the edge — a rare opportunity to shape the technical direction of authentication infrastructure at scale, with a direct impact on millions of users every day. Our code paths sit in the critical hot paths across Grafana’s services, making every millisecond of performance essential. As a Staff Engineer, you will be central to defining how we evolve these systems. What You’ll Be Doing: As a Staff Engineer on the Identity squad, you will set the technical direction for our authentication systems and lead the most complex initiatives from conception through delivery. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product management, and cross-functional partners to define how Grafana authenticates millions of users every day. • Approximately 55% of your time will be dedicated to backend development (Golang), 25% to technical leadership and cross-team collaboration, and 20% to operations and reliability., • Define and own the technical architecture for the Identity squad’s authentication systems, including our edge authentication redesign., • Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, multi-quarter initiatives in the critical path of user interaction, spanning multiple services and teams., • Mentor and develop senior engineers, providing technical guidance, design feedback, and support for their professional growth., • Serve as a technical authority for identity protocols at Grafana, driving alignment on how we implement and evolve OAuth, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and SCIM across the organization., • Drive cross-team technical alignment on authentication standards, patterns, and best practices across Grafana’s engineering organization., • Represent Grafana Labs at meetups and conferences, and contribute to the broader identity and authentication community. As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and strong communication skills are essential. What Makes You a Great Fit: • Deep, proven expertise in distributed systems engineering with Go, with a track record of owning and delivering large-scale production systems end-to-end., • Demonstrated ability to define technical direction and drive architectural decisions independently, with impact that extends beyond your immediate team., • Extensive experience building and operating low-latency, high-throughput services in distributed, multi-tenant environments., • Proven track record of leading and delivering complex, multi-quarter initiatives that span multiple teams or systems., • Ability to mentor and develop senior engineers, elevating the technical quality and capabilities of those around you., • Strong understanding of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and how to design systems that balance reliability, security, and product velocity., • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; able to clearly convey complex technical decisions to diverse audiences, including engineering leadership and non-technical stakeholders., • Expert-level understanding of modern identity standards and threat models (OAuth 2.x / 2.1, OIDC, SAML), and how to implement them securely at scale. Bonus Points For: • Familiarity with Kubernetes., • TypeScript/React experience., • Experience working with OpenFGA and KiFederate IDP., • Experience working in security critical environments., • Experience contributing to or maintaining Open Source projects., • Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry). Compensation & Rewards: In the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is £100,000 - £124,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed _. *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. #LI-Remote For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our .

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at and follow us on and _. 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 role is available for candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland and Sweden. We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Grafana Backend Services squad. The Opportunity: The Grafana backend Services squad’s mission is to deliver the best Grafana service to both On-Prem and Cloud customers in a unified, end-to-end manner, from ownership of the API codebase all the way to operation of its components. Today, this means taking charge of multiple components such as the Grafana Backend API itself and the CLI tool, but also all the orchestration infrastructure required to deliver Grafana at the scale of our Cloud product. What You'll Be Doing: • Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve, • Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features, • Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope, • Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives, • Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running, • Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team, • Regularly sharing ideas and knowledge across a vast array of technical ideologies and mindsets, • Working closely with the other squads in the Grafana Division 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 paired with strong code review and quality standards. You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro). What Makes You a Great Fit: • Have solid backend development experience, ideally with Go, • Good understanding of storage solutions with an emphasis on relational databases like MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres, • Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on, • Have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way, • Have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others, • Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment, • Enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technical solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows., • Can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively Bonus Points For: • Experience with open-source software and/or commercial open-source companies, • Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes, • Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, or Developer Efficiency work streams, • Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles, • Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks, • Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn Compensation & Rewards: In the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is £91,000 - £114,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed _. *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. #LI-Remote For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our .

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 or self-managed with the , both featuring scalable metrics (), logs (), and traces (_). 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. Engineering Manager - Platform - Usage This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only. The Opportunity: Application Core Services (AppCore) is a group within Platform, in the Foundations department. Foundations produces the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) and partners closely with our Cloud, Enterprise, and Grafana teams. Our team develops the essential systems driving Grafana's business operations. We utilize the grafana.com platform to engineer bespoke integrations and solutions that unify the diverse technical ecosystem of a modern software enterprise. The team owns important domain areas that help keep both our customer workflows and internal business processes running smoothly. AppCore is made up of multiple squads, each focused on one or more of these domains. Our work includes maintaining the billing engine responsible for customer usage calculation, automating provisioning after a customer signs a contract, integrating with cloud marketplaces such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, and building and maintaining the user portal our customers rely on to manage their accounts. This is a team working at the intersection of product, platform, and business operations. The systems we build are critical to how Grafana scales. We are looking for a proven leader who enjoys guiding teams in solving complex workflow and systems problems, driving improvements in reliability and developer experience, and building software that directly supports both customers and internal stakeholders. As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software. Engineering Managers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities and collaborate across teams beyond their immediate scope. What You’ll Be Doing: • Manage and grow a distributed team of engineers, conducting regular 1:1s, providing consistent feedback, and supporting individual performance and career development., • Partner with product management and engineering leadership to shape the Usage squad's roadmap, strategy, and OKRs, ensuring alignment with overall company mission and customer impact., • Guide the team through the full project lifecycle, from early technical design and scoping to delivery and post-launch iteration, ensuring high-quality and timely outcomes within the Usage domain (e.g., billing engine, cost management and billing app, reconciliation systems)., • Act as a project manager, facilitating collaboration with Product, DealOps, GTM, Pricing and Monetization, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads to remove blockers and ensure coordinated delivery across service boundaries., • Foster a high-trust, security-first team culture that embraces thoughtful AI-assisted development practices to enhance engineering workflows and eliminate toil., • Contribute to hiring and talent acquisition efforts, partnering with People Ops to attract and retain a diverse group of engineers. What Makes You a Great Fit: • Experienced in people management, including conducting regular 1:1s, delivering candid feedback, and supporting career growth and performance conversations., • You are a leader who empowers engineers, focusing on setting clear direction, aligning on outcomes, and identifying risks early rather than providing task-level oversight., • Transparent and direct by default; you advocate clearly for your reports and proactively resolve ambiguity or conflicts, especially when priorities collide., • A strong communicator who thrives in a fully remote and globally distributed environment, comfortable collaborating asynchronously across time zones and cultures., • You take initiative and can move work forward in complex, systems-focused problem spaces, such as stateful systems, eventual consistency, and reconciliation loops. Requirements: • Minimum 2 years of experience managing software engineering teams., • Prior experience as an Individual Contributor (IC) in a related engineering role for at least 3 years., • A strong software engineering background, ideally including experience in backend systems (like Go), sufficient to credibly engage in technical design discussions and challenge the team toward strong decisions., • Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability., • Demonstrated ability to manage delivery across multiple concurrent projects, align stakeholders with competing priorities, and clearly communicate risks and timelines., • Comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making., • Deeply customer-focused, consistently grounding technical decisions in real-world user and business impact., • Comfort with AI-assisted tooling and an expectation that you are curious and comfortable integrating AI-powered tools into a team's workflow. Bonus Points For: • Experience with high-volume billing systems, usage metering, and customer-facing cost management applications (like CMAB)., • Practical experience implementing and automating complex pricing logic, promotions, discounts, rebilling, and usage forgiveness, while ensuring strong auditability., • Familiarity with cloud marketplace integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP) and compliance or system refactoring related to IT General Controls or Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)., • Experience working on SaaS provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems., • Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-state systems., • Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)., • Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects. Compensation & Rewards: In the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is GBP 103,000 - GBP 129,000. 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: 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. #LI-Remote For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our .

Technical Sales Engineer £40,000 - £45,000 (£50,000 OTE) + Bonus + Private Healthcare + Company Car + Excellent Company Benefits Home based: (Commutable from: London, Watford, Luton, Chelmsford, Oxford, Reading) Do you have sales experience within photonics or optics looking to join an industry recognised company where you will play a vital role in generating new business? On offer is a fantastic opportunity to join an engineering pioneer who provides a wide range of products to a variety of industries where you will have the opportunity to progress your career and receive full industry training in order to become a technical expert on their cutting-edge range of products. The company, who are market leaders provide their bespoke products nationwide, and are now looking for someone to join their specialist team due to rapid growth. You will be responsible for visiting client sites, building long standing relationships whilst being at the forefront of generating new business. In this highly varied role, you will receive a company car and bonus whilst becoming the technical expert in the industry in order to progress your career in the long term. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with sales experience within photonics or optics that is looking to become the technical expert with full industry training whilst progressing your career within a niche and exciting industry. The Role: Technical Sales ...