Developer Advocacy Engineer Remote

Position: Staff Developer Advocacy Engineer |  | Remote
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies – including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay – manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

Staff Developer Advocacy Engineer | US | Remote
This is a fully remote position and we're considering candidates in Canada.

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. We’re hiring a  software engineer embedded in Developer Advocacy  who ships real product code that directly impacts both  Grafana Cloud  and  Grafana OSS .

This is for an engineer who  moves fast with strong judgment , is excited about  AI-assisted development in open source , and wants to help build a platform where  anyone can contribute high-quality learning content —not just engineers.

Your primary focus will be the open source Interactive Learning Plugin:  and its content:

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):  create workflows and product features that let many contributors safely create, iterate on, and improve learning content.

Support private guides and experiences

Make completion tracking that actually matters

Build progress and completion tracking that’s  trustworthy, motivating, and useful .

Instrument learning flows so we can understand what’s working, what’s failing, and where learners get stuck.

Treat observability as a product principle

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

Work daily with 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.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

We know it’s rare to find everything. You should be strong in  at least two  of the three areas below:

AI harness experience (agentic development)

You’ve used tools like  Claude Code  or  Cursor  in real development work (daily or close to it).

You can describe your workflow (scoping → iterate → validate → test) and how you manage risks like security and correctness.

Serious software engineering fundamentals

You can ship production-grade changes and explain tradeoffs.

You care about architecture, maintainability, correctness, and raising the quality bar (not “vibe coding” alone).

Grafana context

You’ve used Grafana in real environments—dashboards, troubleshooting, on-call, or monitoring workflows.

You understand observability practices and how Grafana fits into them.

You’ll also do a small but meaningful amount of communication work (~20%) which will include writing clear docs, design notes, and PR descriptions, as well as occasionally demo work or explaining decisions to internal/external audiences.

Bonus Points For:

Meaningful…