Senior Frontend Engineer - Datasources

About the Role

Join the AWS Data Sources squad as a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead the development of open-source data source plugins for Grafana, enabling users to seamlessly query and visualize data from AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of open-source data source plugins for Grafana, specifically for AWS services.
• Enhance the querying experience within Grafana data sources.
• Investigate and resolve configuration issues related to data sources.
• Support the reliability and operations of data sources in Grafana Cloud.
• Collaborate effectively with engineers and teams across the Grafana division.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system stability.

Requirements

• Professional experience as a Full-stack Engineer, with expertise in React, TypeScript, and microservices.
• Strong proficiency in frontend technologies, particularly React and TypeScript.
• Experience with backend technologies.
• Familiarity with AWS products such as Cloudwatch, OpenSearch, Redshift, Athena, Aurora, and Amazon Prometheus.
• Experience with configuration technologies like Jsonnet and Terraform.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus).
• Comfortable working in a remote-first environment with strong communication skills.
• Naturally curious, motivated to grow, and thrives in a collaborative setting.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Go (Golang) for backend development.
• Passion for building user-facing open-source software.

About the Team

• The Data Sources group is crucial for connecting Grafana to a vast library of data sources.
• The AWS Data Sources squad specifically builds and maintains open-source plugins in partnership with AWS.
• Our mission is to deliver high-quality plugins, enabling Grafana users to query and visualize AWS data in a unified view.
• You will collaborate extensively across the Data Sources team and other Grafana division squads to innovate and solve complex engineering challenges.