Grafana Labs
Data AI · Observability & monitoring
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 - 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 | 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 |