This is a 6 months contract position for the America EST and EU Timezone - we can't consider other timezones due to team setup.

Grafana is the de facto standard open-source dashboarding tool for visualizing and analyzing metrics. Since Grafana is open source, our user base ranges from finance firms at Wall Street to small beehive community groups. The most common use-case for Grafana is infrastructure and application monitoring. Grafana helps companies gain insight into how their applications and users behave, enabling them to iterate and improve faster. This is an exciting opportunity to actively contribute to helping the Grafana Labs team build a product that enables our users to communicate with data and to delight our users. You will also have the opportunity to help the team maintain and continue to build close links with our open-source community.

The Observability team at Grafana:

Our mission is to give users the capability to aggregate data from any source they have within their environment, opening the door to a new waxy of thinking about observability. We want users to be able to leverage Grafana to view their infrastructure as well as the lifecycle of their software in a composable fashion.

The Observability team is part of the Experience team in the open source Grafana Division. We are responsible for a wide range of Observability related plugins(such as Elastic, DataDog, Prometheus, Loki etc.), logs and trace panels, UI components and the Explore page. We also contribute to other projects across the division.

What you'll work on:

The team collaborates on reviewing feature requests from the OSS community and our customer base, identifying high level roadmap themes and overall driving the direction of observability at Grafana Labs.

We are currently focusing on enhancing the observability workflows, expanding the Explore capabilities, improving our observability capabilities and also exploring new avenues for improved monitoring.

As an Observability intern, you will work closely with one of our squads in order to learn and contribute to our OSS solution. You will have the opportunity to:

Learn about our ways of working and best practices when contributing to OSS
Pair up with more experienced Grafanistas to deliver new and exciting features
Review and discuss open pull requests to gain more insight
Gain in depth knowledge of the Grafana tool stack
Take part in issue triage and resolution
Collaborate with UX in designing usable and exciting solutions
Implement your own features with support from your colleagues
Engage with the Grafana community and get feedback on your features

This role would be a good fit for you if:

You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape.
You have interests in full-stack development and working DevOps environments. We are a distributed team, working remotely, on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world ?" the ability to ask for help, do your own research and experiment with code is crucial.
You are eager to learn and grow. There is a lot of room for growth and development, and the team has quite a lot of knowledge to share for those who are willing to learn.
You enjoy being part of the community. Community is part of our core, and interacting with the community is a day-to-day thing for us. At the same time, you know how to recognize ideas and solutions that bring the biggest value to them and have the biggest impact on their experience.
You are able to communicate design decisions clearly in written and spoken English.
You enjoy working on complex solutions ?" Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows.
You approach development holistically. The team owns the full life cycle of our code; from writing design docs, to looking at community feedback, and automated testing. We appreciate engineers who enjoy looking at the big picture, and also notice the details of the brush strokes.

At Grafana Labs we value diverse perspectives; it's one of our core values. Listed above are qualities we value but it is not an exhaustive list, you don't need to check all the boxes.. We welcome individuals of various backgrounds and believe that this diverse mindset makes us stronger.

Our technologies:

We work with React as our framework, Typescript, Redux, and RxJS
We use Storybook to communicate internally and externally (e.g plugin developers can see what the component library looks like and offers)
We use Golang for code that needs to live on the backend

About Grafana Labs: There are more than 900,000 active installations of Grafana around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a SpaceX launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps companies including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud, or self-managed with Grafana Enterprise Stack. The Grafana stack has grown to include three other open-source projects, Grafana Loki (for logs), Grafana Mimir (for metrics), and Grafana Tempo (for traces).

Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

A note about covid-19: All Grafanistas who wish to attend in-person events or travel for Grafana Labs must be fully-vaccinated.

Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we're building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees.

We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, 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 organisation and we're working hard to make sure that's the foundation of our organisation as we grow.

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Summary
Company name: Grafana Labs
Remote job title: Software Development
Job tags: EMEA, Grafana, DevOps