Staff AI Engineer - 2nd Horizon | UK | Remote

Company. Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud and Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform built for scale. It is a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, backed by investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital.

The role. Grafana Labs is hiring a Staff AI Engineer for its Second Horizon (2H) skunkworks initiative, which aims to bring observability to the rest of the business via general data analytics. The goal is to make Grafana the single best place where humans and AI agents understand and act on data from across the enterprise, through AI-driven features in use cases like product analytics and sales data. The 2H team operates with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.

What you'll be doing. Design, develop, test, and ship AI-powered features that manage large datasets; expand the capabilities of analytics-focused AI agents to assist users with information retrieval; rapidly prototype, test, and validate with real users, including shipping and evolving LLM- or agent-powered workflows for the data engineering lifecycle; integrate agentic components with internal tools like Slack and alerting systems; use AI and automation tools to enhance product functionality and development workflows; take full ownership of AI solutions, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with real user workflows.

What makes you a great fit. Solid experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems; AI experience with a practical mindset; comfort with quick iteration and experimentation; proven initiative and ability to define scope in ambiguous situations; collaborative, solutions-oriented communication.

Requirements. Experience with LLMs, context engineering, and building applications powered by GenAI; a proven track record of delivering software that made it into production and is actively used; exposure to cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure); experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior. Bonus points for experience with agent frameworks or multi-agent workflows, work as a data analyst or with data platforms (e.g., Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, DataBricks), and building tools for data engineering.

Compensation & benefits. In the UK, the base compensation range for this role is £100,000 - £124,000. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits. Compensation ranges are country specific.

Application. This is a remote position considering candidates in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, and the UK only. Apply via the Greenhouse job posting.