Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
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.
**The Opportunity: **
About our Platform:** **Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it efficiently and effectively.
We are hiring a Senior Risk Management Engineer to help mature our risk management program.
What You'll Be Doing:
Grafana Labs is hiring for a Risk Management specialist to help identify, analyze, and mitigate potential risks, financial, operational, or reputational risks that threaten Grafana Labs. You will help uncover, document and manage these risks to ensure regulatory compliance, and prepare risk reports to support informed decision-making. This will report into the Governance, Risk and Compliance group while having broad reach across the company.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and articulate material risks
- Ensure consistency between disclosure and operational reality
- Quantify exposure where possible
- Maintain defensible documentation
- Participate in risk identification processes
- Evaluate incident response history
- Evaluate security maturity
- Monitor controls documentation
- Map risks to security and compliance controls
- Monitor and evaluate evidence retention
What You'll Be Doing:
- Embed risk into engineering lifecycle
- Partner with Security and Platform Engineering
- Drive operational risk quantification
- Support diligence with architecture fluency
- Own the enterprise risk framework
- Coordinate with Legal, Finance, and Audit
- Build board-level reporting structure
What Makes You a Great Fit:
_Education: _Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, risk management, or a related field.
_**Experience: **_Previous experience in risk management, compliance, or analytical roles.
_**Technical Skills: **_While this is not an engineering role, knowledge of software development concepts will help immensely.
_**Certifications: **_Professional certification, such as a Certified Risk Management Professional (CRMP), is desirable.
Soft Skills: Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Compensation & Rewards:
In the Netherlands, the Base compensation range for this role is €85,000 - €103,000. 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: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization 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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