Senior Full Stack Engineer (Database Observability)

Location: Remote; applications welcomed from the UK, Ireland, Spain and Germany; EMEA also listed.

Salary: £94,000–£118,000 base compensation in the UK, plus RSUs.

Company

hirify.global develops Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform integrating metrics, logs and traces through open-source technologies and open standards.

What you will do

• Own technical projects from problem framing through rollout, user feedback and outcome measurement.
• Build intuitive database observability experiences with clean, reusable React and TypeScript components.
• Contribute to supporting APIs and backend functionality in Go to deliver complete customer experiences.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing and technical writing.
• Participate in on-call, incident response and customer escalations for production software.
• Collaborate with product management, design, backend engineers and other squads on shared dependencies and technical proposals.

Requirements

• Strong frontend engineering experience building and maintaining production web applications with React and TypeScript.
• Experience contributing across the stack to backend services and APIs.
• Solid experience delivering complex projects, providing technical ownership and mentoring other engineers.
• Experience operating software in production, participating in on-call and responding to incidents.
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems with minimal supervision in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
• Maintainability, readability, automated testing and secure development practices.
• Pragmatic experience using AI coding tools, validating their output and sharing effective practices.
• Intellectual curiosity, transparency, bias toward action, kindness and collaborative teamwork.
• User-focused approach based on short feedback loops: analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn and iterate.

Nice to have

• Open-source contribution or maintainership and comfort engaging with a community in the open.
• Interest or experience in observability, including metrics, logs, traces, Grafana or Prometheus.
• Experience with databases, SQL or database performance monitoring.
• Experience building backend services in Go.
• Previous on-call experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki or Tempo, including homelab experience.
• Experience working in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote company with a global, collaborative and asynchronous culture based on transparency, autonomy and trust.
• Company-funded budget for AI coding assistants and access to current frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
• RSUs included in all roles and defined opportunities for career growth.
• 30 days of annual leave, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
• In-person onboarding and an open-source-oriented, innovation-driven environment.

Hiring process

• Compensation and benefits are country-specific; applicants from locations other than those listed will discuss the applicable market range with a recruiter.
• AI tools may assist recruitment matching, while the recruitment team manually reviews applications.