Original job description
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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 full-time remote opportunity. We are considering candidates based in the US and Canada only, within the Eastern or Central time zones.
The Opportunity:
As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on the Grafana Catalog team, you will help grow the Grafana plugin ecosystem. Plugins are how Grafana connects to almost any data source, panel type or app, and the catalog has more than 300 of them from Grafana Labs, commercial partners and the open source community.
We own the full plugin lifecycle. Developers build plugins with our tooling, publish them to the catalog, and users discover, install and update them in Grafana and Grafana Cloud. We are also building the Grafana Marketplace, which lets partners and independent developers sell their plugins to Grafana users. It is in pilot today and you will help us take it from there.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Some of the things we own:
* The Grafana Marketplace: paid plugins, publisher onboarding, and how customers buy and get access to them
* The plugin catalog in grafana.com and inside Grafana, where users search, compare and discover plugins
* Plugin installation and management in Grafana and Grafana Cloud
* Plugin delivery: publishing, signing, validation and the CDN that serves plugins to every Grafana Cloud instance
* Plugin review: every plugin published to the catalog goes through our review process before it reaches users
* Developer tooling and developer portal that helps develop the plugins
A typical “day in the life” could include:
* Building new Marketplace features across the Grafana frontend, our Go services and grafana.com
* Improving how users find and install plugins, for both humans and agents like Grafana Assistant
* Making it easier and faster for developers to build, test and publish plugins
* Automating and improving the review process that every published plugin goes through
* Supporting the operations and reliability of plugin installs and delivery in Grafana Cloud
* Talking to plugin developers and partners and turning their feedback into roadmap items
* Coming up with suggestions for process improvements
* Working closely with the rest of 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 with strong code review and quality standards. You'll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
What Makes You a Great Fit:
* You know how to transform ideas into working code, you are able to design a solution, get feedback and deliver large projects.
* You are a self-driven individual who understands the power of feedback loops in making roadmap decisions and driving our product forward.
* You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action, and willing to take on any challenge
* You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs.
* You are an excellent communicator and you enjoy collaboration
* You are comfortable working in a remote-first company
Requirements:
* Solid experience with Golang & Typescript
* Experience with React and building user-facing web applications
* Experience with Kubernetes & microservices
* Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
* Experience participating in an on-call rotation and performing operations/SRE tasks
Bonus Points For:
* You have built or published a Grafana plugin
* You have worked on a marketplace, app store or package registry, or on billing and licensing
* You have built developer tooling such as CLIs, SDKs or CI pipelines used by other engineers
* You have strong experience working with a Product Manager or external stakeholders
In Canada, the OTE (On-Target Earnings)/Base compensation range for this role is CAD $170,247 - $204,297. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
* 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
* Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
* Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
* Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
* Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
* Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
* Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
* Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
* Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
* In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
* Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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