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 from US and Canada only (EST time zone).
The opportunity:
Grafana Labs is building a native experimentation platform: a Grafana app that lets teams define A/B tests, connect them to feature flags and product telemetry, and get trustworthy, statistically sound answers about what their changes actually did.
It started as a hackathon project and is now used by Grafana engineering and product teams in our internal environment to run real experiments. The next step is to make it a first-class product: one we rely on every day internally and, over time, one we offer to Grafana Cloud customers alongside Frontend Observability, Session Replay and our other user-experience capabilities.
You'll join the Product Analytics team, a group of highly technical product analysts who help teams across Grafana understand how our products are used and run experiments on them. As the team's dedicated software engineer, you'll own the engineering of the experimentation app and have a lot of influence over where it goes. You'll partner closely with data scientists on the statistics, data engineers on event pipelines and the data warehouse, software engineers across Grafana on feature flags, Frontend Observability and the App Platform, and product stakeholders who rely on experiment results to make decisions. This is a hands-on engineering role that ships production code. It is not an analyst role.
About the product:
The experimentation app is built on the Grafana App Platform:
- Frontend: a TypeScript and React app plugin using @grafana/ui, plus a custom datasource plugin that powers experiment statistics panels.
- Backend: Go, built with the Grafana App SDK. Experiments are Kubernetes-style custom resources defined in CUE, with an operator, admission webhooks, and support for declarative, GitOps-style management.
- Feature flags: integration with OpenFeature and the OpenFeature Remote Evaluation Protocol (OFREP), Grafana's multi-tenant feature toggle service, and an embedded GO Feature Flag evaluator.
- Statistics engine: a Bayesian analysis engine (TypeScript, with a Go port) that produces a direction-aware verdict per metric, probability to be best, credible intervals, expected loss and sample-size recommendations.
- Data: experiment exposure and outcome events flow from product instrumentation through RudderStack into BigQuery, or from Grafana Faro into Loki, and are queried live through Grafana datasources.
- AI: experiment authoring assisted by Grafana Assistant, which discovers relevant data and drafts the experiment configuration for a human to review.
What You’ll be doing:
- Evolve the experimentation app from internal tool to product. Full ownership of features end to end across the React frontend and Go backend, from problem framing and design through rollout, measurement and iteration.
- Build the experimentation experience. Develop intuitive workflows for defining hypotheses, configuring experiments and metrics, managing their lifecycle, and exploring results. Make these experiences useful for product managers and analysts as well as engineers.
- Make instrumentation easier to adopt and trust. Evolve the experimentation SDK and its OpenFeature and Faro integrations. Help teams connect variant assignment, actual exposure, and outcome events with consistent identity and event contracts.
- Connect experiments to the rest of Grafana’s user-experience stack. Integrate with Grafana Faro and Frontend Observability so flag exposures and outcomes are captured automatically, and link experiment results to Session Replay and critical user journeys so teams can see why a variant won, not only that it won.
- Harden the statistics and analysis path. Work with our data analysts to extend the statistics engine, and make analysis scalable, cost-aware and correct. Examples include moving computation server-side, scheduled analysis, alerting on experiment health, and guardrails against misleading results.
- Use AI where it genuinely helps. Extend the Grafana Assistant integration for authoring, explaining and reporting on experiments.
- Raise the engineering bar. Mentor teammates, including analysts who contribute code, through code review, pairing and design docs. Write the architecture decision records (ADRs), docs and demos that help other teams adopt experimentation.
- Own what you ship. Take part in on-call for the services you build, and support the internal teams that run experiments on them.
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:
We highly value people who are intellectually curious, default to transparency, have a strong bias towards action, and are kind and enjoy working as a team.
- Strong full-stack engineering experience. You’ve built and operated production web applications with TypeScript and React, and backend services in Go (or a similar language, with willingness to work in Go). You value maintainability, automated testing and secure development practices.
- Experience building an in-house platform or integrating existing experimentation and A/B testing platform (for example Statsig, Eppo, GrowthBook, Optimizely, LaunchDarkly experiments, or an in-house platform).
- Product and data intuition. You care whether what you shipped actually moved the needle, and you’re comfortable working with event data, SQL and data warehouses such as BigQuery.
- Technical ownership. You’ve delivered complex projects with minimal supervision, broken them into short feedback loops (analyze, design, ship an MVP, learn, iterate), and helped teammates work more effectively.
- Operational responsibility. You’ve been on call, supported software in production, and know how to make systems observable and debuggable.
- Pragmatic AI usage. You use AI coding tools thoughtfully, validate their output, and share practices that improve the team’s speed and quality.
- Clear communication. You can explain technical and statistical tradeoffs to engineers, analysts and product managers in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
Bonus Points For:
- Hands-on experience with feature flags and OpenFeature.
- A working understanding of experiment statistics: Bayesian or frequentist testing, sample sizing, variance reduction, and common pitfalls such as peeking and sample ratio mismatch.
- Experience with Kubernetes concepts: custom resources, operators, admission webhooks, GitOps.
- Experience building Grafana plugins or apps, or with the Grafana App SDK or Scenes.
- Familiarity with frontend observability and product analytics tooling, such as Grafana Faro, RUM, session replay, RudderStack or Segment.
- Open source contribution or maintainership.
- Experience as a user of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki or Tempo, whether at work or on a homelab.
Compensation & Rewards:
In US, the base compensation range for this role is USD $167,000 - $209,000. 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: 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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