Full-Time

Developer Advocate

Posted on 12/20/2024

Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs

1,001-5,000 employees

Observability and monitoring solutions provider

Compensation Overview

CA$120.9k - CA$145.1kAnnually

+ Equity + Bonus

Mid, Senior

No H1B Sponsorship

Remote in Canada

Candidates must be in the Canadian Eastern time zones.

Category
Developer Relations
Required Skills
Grafana
Requirements
  • Substantial technical experience, though this can come from a variety of different disciplines such as testing, software development, system integration, SRE, monitoring, observability, or operations
  • Effective communicator with lots of patience. You will be interacting with people from all over the world with varying levels of experience with Grafana and communication styles.
  • Collaborative mindset that thrives in a culture of learning and sharing what you learn back to the team and community.
  • A background in a technical field such as a BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • Technical writing skills, as shown through any form of past written work
  • Presentation skills, for example any form of past speaking experience
  • Willingness to travel 30% of the time
Responsibilities
  • Creating technical content to educate and empower developers & SREs; this can include sample applications, presentations, blog posts, and other materials
  • Act as an ally and colleague of external practitioners who are getting started
  • Build relationships with people across the community, to support & inspire
  • Provide feedback on our products; help be a conduit of what the community is saying, to help us improve the feedback loop between what users need and what Grafana delivers
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with observability, telemetry, application performance monitoring (APM) or similar
  • History of participation in open source developer communities, in any form
  • Experience with Cloud e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP is definitely a big plus
  • Experience running or organizing communities

Grafana Labs specializes in observability and monitoring solutions for cloud infrastructure and applications. Its main product, Grafana, is an open-source metrics dashboard that allows users to visualize and analyze data from various sources. This helps businesses monitor the performance and health of their systems in real-time. Grafana Labs serves a wide range of clients, from large enterprises to individual developers, across sectors like technology, finance, healthcare, and retail. Unlike many competitors, Grafana Labs offers both open-source and commercial products, generating revenue through premium features, enterprise support, and managed cloud services. The company's goal is to provide essential tools that ensure the reliability and efficiency of digital services.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$783.2M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2014

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Grafana Labs raised $270M, boosting its valuation to over $6 billion in 2024.
  • The company is expanding into Southeast Asia, partnering with AWS and iZeno.
  • Grafana Labs is recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from Datadog, Dynatrace, and New Relic pressures Grafana Labs to innovate.
  • Recent security vulnerabilities highlight potential risks in Grafana's software.
  • Rapid expansion into new regions may strain Grafana Labs' resources and operational capabilities.

What makes Grafana Labs unique

  • Grafana Labs offers a unique open-source observability platform with extensive customization.
  • The company provides both managed and self-managed solutions, catering to diverse client needs.
  • Grafana Labs integrates seamlessly with existing systems, enhancing its OpenTelemetry offerings.

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Benefits

30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, & sick leave

Health coverage

4% contribution match on our 401(k)

$1,500 learning and development stipend

Udemy subscription

Complimentary subscription to Headspace

Discounts on a wide variety of services, including entertainment, food, and fitness.

Remote Work Option

Global Employee Assistance Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

1%
InfoQ
Mar 13th, 2025
Grafana Loki Introduces v3.4 with Standardized Storage and Unified Telemetry

Grafana Loki recently introduced their version 3.4, which includes enhancements aimed at improving the efficiency and log management standardization.

Grafana
Feb 14th, 2025
Introducing Learning journeys: New step-by-step guides to get started with Grafana

Grafana Labs has also introduced Grot guides, which are interactive decision guides that are built to help the community map their requirements to the appropriate documentation through a series of questions.

Grafana
Nov 1st, 2024
Grafana Cloud in Indonesia: Learn how we're meeting users where they are with our latest region

Grafana Labs remain committed to growing its presence in Southeast Asia and teaming up with industry leaders like AWS and iZeno to enable organizations to adopt observability-from operational dashboards to a fully centralized system and everything in between-without the overhead of building and maintaining their own stacks.

Grafana
Oct 17th, 2024
Grafana security release: Critical severity fix for CVE-2024-9264

Today Grafana Labs rolled out patch releases for Grafana 11.0.x, 11.1.x, and 11.2.x that contain a fix for CVE-2024-9264, a critical severity security vulnerability in Grafana that introduced command injection and local file inclusion (LFI) via SQL expressions.

Skedler
Oct 2nd, 2024
AI, Data Lakes, and Grafana: Observability Trends to Watch

Grafana Labs has introduced several innovations aimed at improving Kubernetes observability, including new integrations and features that simplify monitoring.

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