Staff Frontend Engineer

About the Role

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll drive the technical direction and product evolution of our Adaptive Telemetry solutions, empowering Grafana Cloud users to intelligently manage and optimize their observability data. This is a career-defining opportunity to make a significant impact within a remote-first, open-source powerhouse.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage projects through their entire lifecycle, from ideation to delivery.
• Influence the product roadmap and contribute to strategic technical decisions.
• Collaborate closely with frontend and backend engineers, providing technical leadership and guidance on larger initiatives.
• Develop and deliver new features, iterating and improving based on results and feedback.
• Write and review pull requests and design documents to continuously refine the user interface.
• Mentor and support other team members, fostering a positive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team culture.
• Actively contribute to projects beyond your immediate team's scope, learning and growing your understanding of our cloud product.

Requirements

• Solid experience working with web applications, ideally developed with React.
• Proven experience writing and maintaining unit and end-to-end tests using modern testing frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained.
• Experience guiding and supporting other engineers, leading initiatives, and driving projects to successful outcomes.
• A pragmatic approach to problem-solving, capable of breaking down complex challenges into modular solutions and delivering iteratively.
• Strong customer focus and a passion for creating intuitive products that meet user needs.
• Excellent communication skills and an independent, autonomous attitude, essential for a remote-first environment.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working with TanStack and Playwright.
• Prior experience developing Grafana plugins.
• Familiarity with backend programming languages like Go.
• Experience as a user of Grafana.

About the Team

The Adaptive Telemetry group is part of the Databases department, focused on ensuring all telemetry stored in Grafana's databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) is valuable and optimized. We develop Adaptive Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Profiles, providing users with control over their data storage based on usage patterns. Our solutions include Grafana plugins built with TypeScript and React, tested with Jest and Playwright.