Data AI · Observability & monitoring
Grafana Labs has 36 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 89%, are focused on agents. The top hiring functions are Engineering, with 27 roles, and Product, with 9 roles. The most frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, LLM observability, and model serving. In the last 30 days, Grafana Labs posted 20 new AI roles, representing a 54% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 18 active AI roles, up 28% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $154k–$185k (avg $170k).
Grafana Labs currently has 36 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Demand Generation Program Manager | Canada | Remote, Demand Generation Specialist | Canada | Remote, Demand Generation Specialist | United States | Remote, Marketing Analytics Director | Canada | Remote, Marketing Analytics Director | United States | Remote. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Grafana Labs's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (89%), application (11%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Grafana Labs is hiring AI talent in: United States (20 roles), United Kingdom (6 roles), Canada (2 roles), Sweden (1 role).
Job postings at Grafana Labs most frequently mention: Observability, Compliance & Privacy, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Multi-Agent Systems, Large Language Models (LLMs).
In the past 30 days, Grafana Labs has posted 19 new AI-related roles. That is a +36% change versus the prior 30 days (14 → 19).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer | UK | Remote Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer to build an open source, in-product learning experience within Grafana, focusing on AI-assisted development and enabling non-engineers to contribute content. The role involves shipping product code for both Grafana Cloud and OSS, with a significant portion dedicated to the Interactive Learning Plugin and its content. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer | Spain | Remote Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer role focused on building an open-source, in-product interactive learning plugin within Grafana. The role involves shipping real product code, enabling non-engineers to contribute content, and utilizing AI-assisted development workflows. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals, AI harness experience (agentic development), or Grafana context. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Software Engineer - Platform Productivity | United Kingdom | Remote Software Engineer for Platform Productivity at Grafana Labs, focusing on internal engineering platforms, CI/CD, build/release automation, and configuration management. The role involves supporting internal engineering teams, improving developer productivity with AI tools, and participating in on-call rotations. The company is scaling its observability platform and emphasizes open source and collaboration. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Platform Productivity | Ireland | Remote Software Engineer role focused on internal platform productivity, including CI/CD, build/release automation, and configuration management. The role involves supporting internal engineering teams and contributing to the development of AI-backed tooling to enhance user support. While AI tools are used in development, the core function is platform engineering, not direct AI model development. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Synthetic Monitoring | UK | Remote Software Engineer role focused on building and operating Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, a system used to proactively verify critical user journeys, APIs, and services. The role involves full-stack development across Go backend services and TypeScript/React frontend, with a focus on integrating Synthetic Monitoring into the wider Grafana Cloud platform, enabling AI-assisted workflows, and ensuring enterprise-scale operability. The company uses AI coding assistants and has access to frontier models. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Synthetic Monitoring | Germany | Remote Software Engineer role focused on building and operating Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, a system used to proactively verify critical user journeys, APIs, and services. The role involves full-stack development across Go backend services and TypeScript/React frontend, with a focus on integrating Synthetic Monitoring into the wider Grafana Cloud platform and enabling enterprise-scale operation. The company utilizes AI coding assistants and has access to frontier models. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Synthetic Monitoring | Ireland | Remote Software Engineer role focused on Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, a distributed system for proactively verifying service availability. The role involves full-stack development across Go backend services and TypeScript/React frontend, with a focus on scaling the product, integrating it with the wider Grafana Cloud platform, and enabling enterprise-scale operations. The team uses AI coding assistants and has access to frontier models. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Synthetic Monitoring | Sweden | Remote Software Engineer role focused on building and operating Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, a system used to proactively verify the performance of user journeys, APIs, and services. The role involves full-stack development, system design, and integrating Synthetic Monitoring with other Grafana Cloud features, including AI-assisted workflows. The company uses AI coding assistants and offers access to frontier models. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Synthetic Monitoring | Spain | Remote Software Engineer role focused on Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, a distributed system for proactively verifying service availability. The role involves full-stack development (Go, TypeScript, React) across backend services, agents, and frontend workflows. Key responsibilities include owning features end-to-end, designing scalable systems, building cross-product and AI-assisted workflows, and ensuring enterprise-scale operability. The team uses AI coding assistants and has access to frontier models. | — | 5 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | Germany | Remote Staff Backend Engineer to build the core backend architecture for an AI-native data intelligence system that provides AI agents with reliable, governed access to enterprise context. This system will handle ingestion, context storage, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations, aiming to make Grafana the single best place for humans and AI agents to understand and act on real-time enterprise data. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | UK | Remote Staff Backend Engineer to build the core backend architecture for an AI-native data intelligence system that provides AI agents with reliable, governed access to enterprise context. This involves designing and shipping services for context ingestion, storage, retrieval APIs, and agent integrations, focusing on building a scalable, multi-tenant SaaS foundation. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | Ireland | Remote Staff Backend Engineer to build the core backend architecture for an AI-native data intelligence system that provides AI agents with reliable, governed access to enterprise context for retrieval workflows. This includes ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations, focusing on building a scalable, multi-tenant SaaS foundation. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | Sweden | Remote Staff Backend Engineer to build the core backend architecture for an AI-native data intelligence system that provides AI agents with reliable, governed access to enterprise context. This involves designing and shipping services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations, focusing on a scalable, multi-tenant SaaS foundation. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | Spain | Remote Staff Backend Engineer to build the core backend architecture for an AI-native data intelligence system that provides AI agents with reliable, governed access to enterprise context. This involves designing and shipping services for ingestion, context storage, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations, with a focus on creating a scalable, multi-tenant SaaS foundation. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | United Kingdom | Remote Staff Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling Tempo, an open-source distributed tracing backend for Grafana. The role involves technical leadership, architecture ownership, API design for humans and agents, operational excellence, and contributing to open source. While the role itself is not directly building AI models, it is evolving the core observability platform to support AI-driven assistants and LLM-friendly interfaces, making it a key component in an AI-powered observability stack. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Sweden | Remote Staff Software Engineer role focused on Grafana Tempo, an open-source distributed tracing backend. The role involves evolving Tempo into a platform for observability products, including AI-driven assistants, by improving ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation. Key responsibilities include leading technical initiatives, owning architecture, designing APIs for humans and agents, driving operational excellence, and contributing to open source. The role emphasizes performance, scalability, and preparing Tempo for AI-powered workflows and agent-driven systems. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Spain | Remote Staff Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling Tempo, an open-source distributed tracing backend. The role involves technical leadership, architecture ownership, API design for humans and agents (including LLM-driven assistants), operational excellence, and contributing to open source. The position emphasizes improving performance, enabling downstream observability products, and preparing for agent-driven workflows and AI-powered investigations. While the company uses AI tools and mentions AI assistants, the core of the role is in building and scaling the underlying observability platform, not directly shipping AI models or agents as the primary deliverable. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Germany | Remote Staff Software Engineer role focused on Grafana Tempo, an open-source distributed tracing backend. The role involves evolving Tempo into a platform powering Grafana's next-generation observability products, including AI-driven assistants. Key responsibilities include technical leadership, architecture ownership, designing APIs for humans and agents, driving operational excellence, and contributing to open source. The role emphasizes improving performance, scalability, and preparing Tempo for agent-driven workflows and AI-powered investigations. While the company uses AI tools and mentions AI-driven assistants, the core craft of this role is in building and scaling the distributed tracing backend infrastructure, not directly building or researching AI models themselves. | — | 5 |
| Staff AI Product Analyst, Product Management | UK | Remote Staff Product Analyst to partner with Grafana's AI organization, supporting teams building AI products like Grafana Assistant and Investigations. The role focuses on defining success metrics, guiding experiment design, and translating data into product decisions to shape AI-powered experiences. | Agent | 5 |
| Regional Marketing Associate | UK | Remote Regional Marketing Associate for Grafana Labs, responsible for executing marketing plans, managing events, and supporting ABM programs. The role involves using AI tools to enhance efficiency in various marketing tasks. | — | 5 |
| People Enablement Partner | UKI | Remote This role is for a People Enablement Partner at Grafana Labs, a company that uses AI tools and LLMs to enhance its observability platform. The role focuses on supporting Sales and customer-facing organizations by designing and implementing people enablement strategies, including learning, performance, and development. The candidate will partner with GTM management, identify needs and gaps, and support people managers. A key aspect is the use of AI tools and LLMs to build enablement workflows, such as generating coaching briefs and diagnostics, and using sentiment analysis for impact measurement. The role requires experience in high-growth environments, remote work, and strong communication and problem-solving skills. AI fluency and tool-agnosticism are highlighted, with an emphasis on using LLMs to accelerate work. | — | 5 |
| Sales Development Representative | Netherlands | Remote Sales Development Representative role focused on engaging users, partnering with the sales team to identify new business opportunities, and developing transferable skills. The role involves researching target accounts, crafting messaging, driving business conversations, and using AI as a tool for productivity. It requires building knowledge of technology and industry trends, following up on inbound leads, proactive outreach, using Salesforce and Grafana dashboards, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. | — | 5 |
| Sales Development Representative | UK | Remote Sales Development Representative role focused on engaging users, partnering with the sales team to identify new business opportunities, and developing transferable skills. The role involves balancing reactive and proactive work, researching and crafting outreach messaging, and driving business conversations. It emphasizes using AI as a tool for productivity and requires strong organizational and communication skills. | — | 5 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform | UK | Remote Staff Backend Engineer for Grafana App Platform, focusing on refactoring the core architecture for multi-tenancy and scalability in a SaaS environment. The role involves coding new features, enhancing operational experience, contributing to design documents, and mentoring team members. While not building AI models, the role heavily utilizes AI coding assistants and has access to frontier models for development tasks. | — | 5 |
| Senior Backend Engineer | Mimir OSS | Spain | Remote Senior Backend Engineer role at Grafana Labs, focusing on the Mimir OSS project and Grafana Cloud Metrics. The role involves designing, building, operating, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems for metrics, logs, and traces. While the core role is backend engineering for observability platforms, the company explicitly mentions the use of modern AI coding assistants and access to frontier models as part of the daily workflow, indicating an AI-adjacent usage. | — | 5 |
| Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer | Sweden | Remote Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer to build an open-source, in-product learning experience within Grafana, focusing on AI-assisted development and enabling non-engineers to contribute content. The role involves shipping product code for both Grafana Cloud and OSS, with a significant portion dedicated to the Interactive Learning Plugin and its content. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer | Germany | Remote Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer role focused on building an open-source, in-product learning experience within Grafana. The role involves shipping product code, enabling content contribution (especially for non-engineers), and utilizing AI-assisted development workflows. It requires strong software engineering fundamentals, AI harness experience (agentic development), and Grafana context, with a focus on enabling users to learn within their workflow. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer | Ireland | Remote Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer to build an open-source, in-product learning experience within Grafana, focusing on AI-assisted development and enabling non-engineers to contribute content. The role involves shipping product code for both Grafana Cloud and OSS, with a significant portion dedicated to software engineering and a smaller part to communication. | Agent | 5 |
| People Enablement Partner | UK | Remote This role is for a People Enablement Partner in the UK, supporting GTM (Go-To-Market) teams at Grafana Labs. The primary focus is on designing and delivering people enablement strategies, including learning, performance, and development. The role involves partnering with GTM management, identifying needs and gaps, supporting people managers, and contributing to talent and attrition initiatives. A key aspect is the use of AI tools and LLMs to build enablement workflows, such as generating coaching briefs, diagnostics, and using sentiment analysis for impact measurement. While the role utilizes AI tools extensively, it does not involve building or shipping AI models. | — | 5 |
| Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Metal | UK | Remote Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Metal at Grafana Labs, responsible for building and provisioning infrastructure (storage, networking, Kubernetes clusters) on physical hardware outside of public cloud. The role involves managing a team, collaborating with leadership, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality platform services to application engineers. While the role itself is not directly building AI models, it heavily utilizes AI-assisted tooling for developer productivity and expects comfort with AI-powered tools in team workflows. | — | 5 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | Sweden | Remote Staff Backend Engineer role at Grafana Labs, focusing on Adaptive Telemetry for their observability platform. The role involves driving technical strategy, leading project delivery, owning system architecture, reliability, performance, and cost. It also includes defining SLOs, incident response, improving observability and automation, mentoring engineers, and representing engineering internally and externally. The role mentions using AI coding assistants and frontier models for development. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Platform Productivity | Spain | Remote Software Engineer for Platform Productivity at Grafana Labs, focusing on internal engineering platforms, CI/CD, build/release automation, and configuration management. The role involves supporting internal engineering teams, automating release processes, and contributing to the development of AI-backed tooling to enhance internal user support. This is a remote position open to applicants in Spain time zones. | — | 1 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Ireland | Remote Staff Software Engineer role focused on Grafana's Tempo, a distributed tracing backend. The role involves evolving Tempo into a platform for observability products, including AI-driven assistants, by improving its APIs, performance, and operational excellence. Key responsibilities include leading technical initiatives, owning architecture, designing APIs for humans and agents, driving operational excellence, and contributing to open source. | — | 1 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform | Spain | Remote Staff Backend Engineer role focused on refactoring Grafana's core architecture to be fully multi-tenant and scalable, serving as a platform for proprietary apps. The role involves coding new features, enhancing operational experience, authoring design documents, roadmap shaping, and mentoring. While the company uses AI coding assistants and offers access to frontier models, the core of the role is backend engineering for a SaaS observability platform, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 1 |
| Senior Backend Engineer | Mimir OSS | UK | Remote Senior Backend Engineer role at Grafana Labs, focusing on the Mimir OSS project, which is a large-scale, high-performance distributed metrics platform. The role involves designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems, contributing to roadmap influence, feature delivery, and on-call rotations. The company utilizes AI coding assistants and offers access to frontier models for developer productivity. | — | 1 |
| Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Metal | Ireland | Remote Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Metal at Grafana Labs, responsible for building and provisioning infrastructure including storage, networking, and Kubernetes clusters on physical hardware. The role involves managing a team, collaborating with leadership, and fostering a productive environment. While the company uses AI tools for developer productivity, the core function of the role is infrastructure management, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 1 |
| Solutions Engineer | UK | Remote Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs, a company focused on open observability. This role involves being a customer-facing product expert, partnering with sales to articulate the Grafana value proposition, owning technical engagements, delivering presentations, and providing product feedback. The role requires strong technical pre-sales experience, excellent communication skills, and a technical mindset. Experience with open source or the metrics/monitoring space is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | Remote Staff Backend Engineer focused on the Alerting system for Grafana Labs, a company providing an open observability platform. The role involves designing, building, and operating distributed systems for alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation at scale. While the company mentions AI in its product description, this specific role is centered on backend engineering for the alerting system, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | Sweden | Remote Staff Backend Engineer role at Grafana Labs, focusing on the Alerting squad within the Grafana open-source project. The role involves designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical distributed systems for alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation at scale, with a focus on reliability, performance, and availability. The position is 100% remote and requires strong backend engineering skills, experience with Go (or similar languages), and a customer-focused, collaborative approach. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | Spain | Remote Staff Backend Engineer role at Grafana Labs, focusing on the Alerting system. The role involves designing, building, and operating critical distributed systems for alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation at scale. It requires strong backend engineering skills, experience with cloud systems or systems engineering, and collaboration in a remote, open-source environment. The position is 100% remote and offers a competitive salary and stock options. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | Ireland | Remote Staff Backend Engineer focused on the Alerting system within Grafana Labs, a company specializing in open observability. The role involves designing, building, and operating critical distributed systems for alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation, ensuring reliability and performance at scale. While the company mentions AI in its product description, this specific role is centered on backend engineering for alerting systems, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | Germany | Remote Staff Backend Engineer role focused on building and operating scalable distributed systems for alert ingestion and evaluation within the Grafana open-source project. The role involves influencing the roadmap, delivering new features, and ensuring the reliability, performance, and availability of critical systems, with a focus on backend development and cloud operations. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | UK | Remote Staff Software Engineer - SRE to support Grafana Cloud customers by increasing the reliability of their Cloud databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope). The role involves partnering with product engineering, owning production reliability, designing and implementing automation, defining SLOs, leading incident response, and influencing feature design for scalability and operability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability Provider | Sweden | Remote Senior Software Engineer role at Grafana Labs, focusing on building and scaling the Grafana Cloud Observability product suite. The role involves designing and implementing integrations for infrastructure components, creating middleware, and contributing to open-source projects. Emphasis on scalability, reliability, and collaboration within a remote-first, global team. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability Provider | Spain | Remote Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling Grafana Cloud's observability product suite, including integrations for infrastructure components, databases, and applications. The role involves creating middleware, SDKs, and libraries, contributing to open source projects, and participating in on-call rotations. Emphasis on designing, building, and scaling solutions for collecting, visualizing, and analyzing metrics and logs data. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability Provider | Germany | Remote Senior Software Engineer role at Grafana Labs focused on building and scaling their Cloud Observability product suite. The role involves designing and implementing integrations for infrastructure components, databases, and applications, creating middleware, SDKs, and libraries. It also includes contributing to open-source projects and participating in on-call rotations. The position emphasizes working with metrics and logs data from cloud provider services and supporting the technical direction of the team. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability Provider | UK | Remote Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling Grafana Cloud's observability product suite, including integrations for infrastructure components, databases, and applications. The role involves creating middleware, SDKs, and libraries, contributing to open source projects, and participating in on-call rotations. Emphasis on scalability, open source, and collaboration within a remote-first global team. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services | Germany | Remote Senior Software Engineer role focused on operating and evolving distributed database infrastructure (Mimir, Loki, Tempo) and streaming backbone (WarpStream) for Grafana Cloud. The role involves managing multi-cloud clusters, diagnosing failures, designing upgrade strategies, improving observability, and partnering with database and platform teams. It emphasizes distributed systems, Kubernetes, storage engines, and operational excellence. The role also mentions the use of AI coding assistants and access to frontier models as part of the developer workflow. | — | 0 |
| Senior Solutions Architect | UK | Remote This role is for a Senior Solutions Architect at Grafana Labs, focusing on helping customers adopt and integrate Grafana's observability platform, which includes AI-driven features. The role involves technical consulting, training, and acting as a trusted partner to clients, translating business needs into technical solutions. It requires strong technical skills in observability, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms, with an emphasis on customer success and best practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting | Sweden | Remote Senior Backend Engineer role focused on the alerting system for Grafana Labs, a company known for its open observability platform. The role involves designing, building, and operating critical distributed systems for alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation, with a focus on scalability and reliability. While the company mentions AI in its product, this specific role is centered on backend engineering for the alerting system, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |