Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to build observability tools that help users understand and improve their systems through AI-driven features. The role involves developing high-performance AI solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring scalable and maintainable innovations.
Responsibilities
- Build and deliver AI solutions: Take ownership of developing high-performance AI features to help users detect, triage, and resolve incidents using observability data and tools
- Rapid experimentation and iteration: Implement a highly iterative process where you quickly prototype, test, and validate with real users, including shipping and evolving LLM- or agent-powered workflows for incident lifecycle management and automated analysis tasks
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with data analysts, product managers, and designers to shape AI-driven product features, including integration of agentic components with internal tools, alerting systems, runbooks, and developer workflows
- Utilize AI tools effectively: Use AI and automation tools to enhance both product functionality and your own development workflows
- Effective communication: You'll be working in a highly dynamic and collaborative environment, so we need someone who can communicate effectively and contribute across teams
- Ownership and impact: Take full ownership of the AI solutions you develop, ensuring they are not only innovative but also scalable, maintainable, and aligned with real user workflows
Skills
- Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and building applications powered by GenAI
- Proven track record of delivering software that made it into production and is actively used by users
- Exposure to working in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
- Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior
- Strong engineering skills: Solid experience building production software systems (backend and / or full stack). You're a self-starter, capable of tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision
- AI experience with a practical mindset: You're familiar with AI technologies and frameworks, and you focus on delivering high-quality solutions that work in the real world, not just in theory
- Quick iteration and experimentation: You're comfortable releasing prototypes, collecting feedback, and iterating with a pragmatic mindset
- Proven initiative: You take ownership and drive projects forward, pushing boundaries to find the most impactful solutions. You can deal with ambiguity and are able to define scope where things are loosely defined
- Collaborative attitude: You communicate effectively with peers, product managers, and designers. You're open to feedback, and you bring a solutions-oriented mindset to the table
- Experience building or working with agent frameworks or multi-agent workflows
- Experience with infrastructure / devops related tooling: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform or similar for deployments
- Familiarity with model fine-tuning techniques
- Experience building observability tooling
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success
- 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
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