Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer

About

Grafana Labs is a remote‑first, open‑source powerhouse with more than 20 M users of the Grafana visualization tool worldwide. The company helps over 3 000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, available as fully managed Grafana Cloud or self‑managed Grafana Enterprise.

Role: Senior Developer Advocacy Engineer – Germany – Remote

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The Opportunity

Grafana is building the Interactive Learning Plugin – an open‑source, in‑product learning experience inside Grafana that helps users level up without leaving their workflow. The role is embedded in Developer Advocacy and ships real product code that directly impacts both Grafana Cloud and Grafana OSS. The primary focus will be the open‑source Interactive Learning Plugin (https://github.com/grafana/grafana-pathfinder-app) and its content (https://github.com/grafana/interactive-tutorials).

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What You’ll Be Doing

• Build delightful interactive learning inside Grafana.
• Ship features that make learning experiences feel obvious, smooth, and scalable.
• Improve the end‑to‑end learner experience—from onboarding to completion.
• Enable contribution and authoring (especially for non‑engineers) by creating workflows and product features that let many contributors safely create, iterate on, and improve learning content.
• Support private guides and experiences.
• Build completion tracking that is trustworthy, motivating, and useful.
• Instrument learning flows to understand what’s working, what’s failing, and where learners get stuck.
• Treat observability as a product principle and build fast feedback loops (metrics/logs/traces + user‑journey visibility) so issues stay shallow.
• Make it easy to understand what’s happening in production and in real user experiences.
• Ship fast with an AI‑driven development workflow, using tools like Claude Code or Cursor in an agent‑based workflow.
• Apply strong engineering judgment—scoping, iterating, verifying, and testing—so speed doesn’t compromise quality.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation as part of the DevOps culture, embracing end‑to‑end ownership of the software you build.

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What Makes You a Great Fit

You should be strong in at least two of the three areas below:

• AI harness experience (agentic development)

  • Daily or near‑daily use of tools like Claude Code or Cursor in real development work.
  • Ability to describe your workflow (scoping → iterate → validate → test) and how you manage risks such as security and correctness.

• Serious software engineering fundamentals

  • Proven ability to ship production‑grade changes and explain trade‑offs.
  • Commitment to architecture, maintainability, correctness, and raising the quality bar (not “vibe coding” alone).

• Grafana context

  • Hands‑on experience with Grafana in real environments—dashboards, troubleshooting, on‑call, or monitoring workflows.
  • Understanding of observability practices and how Grafana fits into them.

Additional responsibilities include ~20 % communication work: writing clear docs, design notes, PR descriptions, occasional demos, and explaining decisions to internal or external audiences.

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Bonus Points For

• Meaningful open‑source contribution or maintainer experience.
• Full‑stack experience (strong frontend‑only or backend‑only profiles are also welcome).
• Proficiency with TypeScript and/or Go.
• Kubernetes familiarity.
• Experience in the broader observability ecosystem (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, OpenTelemetry).

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Compensation & Rewards

• Base compensation range (Germany): EUR 97 034 – EUR 116 441 (actual amount varies by level, experience, and skillset).
• All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to give team members ownership in Grafana Labs’ success.

Compensation ranges are country‑specific; recruiters will discuss the applicable market range for other locations.

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Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

• 100 % Remote, global culture with a collaborative, purpose‑driven environment.
• High‑growth, scaling organization offering meaningful work.
• Transparent communication and open decision‑making.
• Innovation‑driven autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Strong open‑source roots and community‑driven values.
• Empowered teams with high trust, low ego, and outcome‑focused culture.
• Defined career growth pathways and opportunities.
• Approachable leadership that is visible and human.
• Passionate, supportive colleagues.
• In‑person onboarding to help you thrive from day 1.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days, plus 3 days reserved for “Grafana Shutdown Days.”

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Equal Opportunity

Grafana Labs recruits, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic that makes us unique. Equality and diversity are foundational to the organization’s growth.

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Grafana Labs may use AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching CV information to job postings; all applications are reviewed manually.