Staff Frontend Engineer - Grafana DataViz | Canada | Remote
Staff frontend engineer on Grafana Labs' DataViz squad, building and evolving Grafana's open-source data visualizations (dashboards, charts, GraphViz) in TypeScript, React, uPlot, and ECharts. Leads multi-quarter initiatives, mentors engineers, participates in on-call, and supports customer escalations. Fully remote role for candidates in Canada/US (EST/CST).
- Compensation
- CA$186.4K–CA$223.6K / yr
- Location
- Canada (Remote)
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Frontend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Technical leadership: experience leading teams through projects, mentoring engineers, and serving as a force-multiplier
- Clear communication in a fully remote, asynchronous environment
- Experience being on-call and operating software you have built in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents
- Experience building production software systems and tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision
- User focus and pragmatism: breaking complex problems into short feedback loops (analyze, design, deliver MVP, learn, iterate)
- Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks with a practical, real-world mindset
- Care about the community of users and contributors and be keen to be an active Grafana Community Contributor
- Intellectually curious, defaults to transparency, high bias towards action, kind and enjoys teamwork
- Work with the squad's primary stack: TypeScript, React, uPlot, and ECharts
Nice to have
- Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open
- Active interest in observability (Metrics, Logs and Traces); experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms
- Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo in a previous role (or on a homelab)
- Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team
Full 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 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 remote position. We are seeking candidates in US and Canada (EST/CST time zones)
The Opportunity
About Grafana Frontend
The Grafana Frontend group is responsible for the end to end user experience on Grafana the observability product and Grafana the platform used by many engineers to build plugins. Our squads are responsible for dashboards, data visualization and manipulation, navigation across the ecosystem, sharing experience, content search,organisation and more.
You'll also have the opportunity to work across the Grafana Frontend team and partner with other squads within the Grafana department to drive innovation and solve complex engineering challenges.
The squad: DataViz
We build and evolve the Grafana Visualizations. We want to give our users the ability to visualize their data in a way that’s easy to set up and understand, so they can pull out interesting and valuable insights.
Some of our recent projects include:
- Externalisation of our core visualization to be independently releasable and remove interdependencies
- GraphViz: Visualize relationships, flows, and architectures using the Graphviz DOT language with live metrics from any Grafana data source.
- Raising the bar on quality and reliability: improving our test coverage, introduce a new testing strategy and tooling for visual regressions
- Refresh the look and feel of our existing visualizations. E.g Table and Gauge