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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 opportunity and we would be interested in applicants in the UK. The Opportunity: We are the team behind , , and _, used by teams globally to ensure resilient, high-performing systems. This opportunity is with the synthetics squad, who build and operate our monitoring product: a multi-tenant distributed system implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers (GCP, Azure, AWS), running billions of synthetic tests each month. 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. What You’ll Be Doing: We define senior roles via the scope of their business impact more than via their expertise or their specific activities. 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 across engineering teams and departments, contribute to business conversations, and help shape the long-term strategy. You’ll bring your passion for observability and software engineering expertise to help us take synthetic monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud to the next level. This will include working across products including Synthetics, Frontend Observability, Grafana k6, and Grafana Cloud k6. • Design and implement high-quality, scalable services to be consumed by multiple Grafana Cloud products., • 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, • When necessary, represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events, • 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. What Makes You a Great Fit: • Strong 8+ 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., • Demonstrated experience working with and monitoring Kubernetes in a production environment, • 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 with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner, • Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams, • Experience with distributed systems, • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, • Strong mentoring and leadership skills, • Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management Bonus Points For: • 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, • In-depth knowledge cloud platform internals, • Strong understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts Compensation & Rewards: In the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is GBP 91,755 - GBP 110,106. 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 .

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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. About the role: Grafana Labs is looking for a Senior GTM Enablement Manager, EMEA to own regional enablement strategy and execution across Sales and the broader GTM org. You will be the in-timezone enablement leader for EMEA—extending global programs, adapting them for local market realities, and partnering closely with EMEA leadership to improve seller productivity and consistency. This is a senior individual contributor role with regional ownership. You will drive enablement that changes behavior in the field: stronger discovery, tighter qualification, better deal execution, and a consistent sales culture. Command of the Message (CoM) and MEDDPICC expertise are required; you must be highly fluent in sales frameworks and able to coach them credibly, especially in organizations where not every seller or leader has the same baseline. What You’ll Be Doing: Own regional enablement strategy & execution (EMEA) • Partner with EMEA Sales and GTM leadership to understand priorities, skill gaps, and near-term business needs, then design and deliver targeted enablement interventions., • Extend global enablement programs (sales plays, methodology reinforcement, content) and adapt them to EMEA market maturity, culture, and operating rhythms., • Own reinforcement of Command of the Message and MEDDPICC in EMEA through workshops, simulations, and live deal-based coaching–translating frameworks into practical, repeatable field behaviors., • Build a “for the field, by the field” model: co-create and co-deliver sessions with top performers and regional SMEs., • Act as the in-timezone point of contact for EMEA enablement requests, triaging needs and aligning expectations with stakeholders., • Bring field insights (objections, competitive realities, messaging clarity issues) back to global enablement, Product Marketing, and leadership., • Attend and participate in key in-region sales moments (e.g. QBRs, kickoffs) to stay close to the business, reinforce priorities, and identify real-time enablement needs., • Join core operating rhythm cadences (e.g. forecast calls, pipeline reviews, deal reviews) to observe execution, surface patterns and gaps, and translate what you see into targeted coaching, practice, and enablement programs. Support global onboarding delivery + post-onboarding ramp in-region • Support the global onboarding program by delivering existing training modules both virtually and in-person for new hire cohorts (expected annual travel is 10-20%), • Serve as a point of contact for EMEA new hires after the 6-week onboarding program as they ramp: reinforce core behaviors, share “how we win” patterns, and connect reps to the right SMEs and resources., • Coordinate targeted ramp reinforcement moments for new cohorts based on observed gaps and manager input. Support APAC enablement coordination (limited, short-term) • As needed, help organize a small number of APAC sessions (logistics, scheduling, content routing) while regional SMEs or other owners drive delivery., • Focus remains EMEA-first; APAC involvement is intended to cover short-term coordination needs, especially during low time-zone overlap periods. What Makes You a Great Fit: • 3+ years in GTM enablement, sales leadership, sales operations, or a closely related role within B2B SaaS or enterprise technology., • 2+ years prior quota-carrying experience or equivalent deal-facing role., • Demonstrated experience enabling sellers in complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles., • Command of the Message experience (required)., • MEDDPICC experience (required)., • Excellent facilitator: you can run engaging sessions for sellers and drive participation, practice, and behavior change., • Strong cross-functional partner who can influence without authority and align stakeholders on priorities and tradeoffs., • Data-informed and field-oriented: you use metrics and qualitative signals to diagnose gaps and build practical programs., • Culturally aware and adaptable across EMEA geographies; you design once and deliver flexibly., • Willingness and ability to travel within EMEA for in-person workshops and key field moments (as needed). Bonus Points For: • Confident and competent in leveraging AI tools to drive efficiency, • We are a remote first company, so you should be experienced and skilled at working remotely with an international team, • We’re a high growth company, so your job duties will be varied and complex and will require strong judgment, collaboration, and leadership Compensation & Rewards: In the United Kingdom, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is GBP 100,000 - GBP 121,000. 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 .

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 .

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 opportunity and we would be interested in applicants living in UK time zones only at this time. The Opportunity: The Managed Services team is a newly formed squad within the Databases department. It owns and operates shared, production-critical infrastructure that powers Grafana Cloud’s next-generation database products (Mimir, Loki, and Tempo). Today, this includes operating 100+ WarpStream clusters across multiple cloud providers and regions, with continued growth anticipated for the future. WarpStream acts as the streaming backbone for ingestion and read/write decoupling across databases. It sits directly on the hot path for metrics, logs, and traces, handling high-throughput, multi-consumer workloads at massive scale. In addition to streaming infrastructure, the team works closely with high-volume analytical and storage systems that power query-heavy and aggregation-heavy workloads, where latency, compression behavior, storage layout, and scaling characteristics matter deeply. What You’ll Be Doing: As a Senior Engineer on Managed Services, you will take ownership of running these systems in production. This involves: • Operating and evolving 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure, • Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes (e.g., object storage latency, noisy neighbors, control-plane bottlenecks, query performance regressions, etc.), • Designing safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale, • Improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics, • Partnering closely with database and platform teams to ensure safe scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance, • Working directly with distributed systems behavior, Kubernetes scheduling dynamics, storage engines, compression trade-offs, etc., • Serving as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents, • Owning the relationship with all system vendors, including WarpStream Labs and others., • 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 good communication skills are a must. This role blends deep distributed systems work with the opportunity to influence how the team approaches reliability, scaling, and operational excellence. 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). Of course, there is an on-call component to this role and one that we take seriously. As a company, we hire globally (remote-first) to ensure our on-call remains healthy and aligned to approximately 12 daylight hours per day. You will work closely with counterparts in other regions to provide balanced coverage and shared ownership. What Makes You a Great Fit: • Regular 1:1s with your manager and close collaboration with teammates across regions, • Reviewing and defining SLOs for shared database infrastructure, proactively reducing error budgets through improvements to monitoring, automation, scaling strategies, and system design, • Improving the diagnosability of core streaming and database systems in production, where possible., • Implementing solutions that ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of high-throughput, multi-cloud infrastructure, • Developing fault-tolerant patterns that account for distributed system realities such as storage latency, partition imbalance, noisy neighbors, and control-plane dependencies, • Planning and executing safe upgrades and rollouts across dozens of production clusters, • Collaborating with database and platform engineering leaders to influence architecture, roadmap priorities, and long-term strategy, • Participating in PR review and contributing to design documents, automation, tooling, and code improvements that reduce operational risk, • Sharing best practices and distributed systems knowledge with partner teams, • Participating in incident response, from investigation through resolution and post-incident reviews (PIR) Requirements: • 6+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful time in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems roles., • Experience operating distributed systems in production (e.g., streaming systems, analytical databases, large-scale storage backends). Examples of these include Kafka, Redpanda, WarpStream, Postgres, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Cassandra., • Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)., • Solid understanding of distributed systems design and large-scale system trade-offs., • Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred, but not required)., • Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and performance/scaling behavior., • Experience participating in blameless incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews., • Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams and work autonomously., • Curious, pragmatic, action-oriented, and kind (this is important!) Compensation & Rewards: In the United Kingdom, the Base compensation range for this role is GBP 91,755 - GBP 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 _. 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 .

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 would be interested in applications from the UK. The Opportunity: The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project _, and our mission is to provide the most in-depth way to let users manage their alerts. The backend-focused team works closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-prem and at infinite scale in Cloud. Our domain is quite large, so to get an idea of the kind of work we do, here are some projects we recently worked on: • Build distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts, • Unify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts, • Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production. Grafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool. What You’ll Be Doing: • Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives, • Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve., • Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers, • Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope, • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability, • 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, • Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system 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 good communication skills are a must. What Makes You a Great Fit: • You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action, • You are customer focused, • We build everything with our users in mind., • You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs, • Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively, • Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must, • Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well, • Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way, • Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering, • Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others Compensation & Rewards: In the UK, the compensation range for this role is GBP 91,755 - GBP 110,106. 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 .

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 .