Senior Risk Management Engineer

Fully Remote

Job Description

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 the 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.

The Opportunity:

About our Platform:
Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it efficiently and effectively.

We are hiring a Senior Risk Management Engineer to help mature our risk management program.

What You'll Be Doing

Grafana Labs is hiring for a Risk Management specialist to help identify, analyze, and mitigate potential risks, financial, operational, or reputational risks that threaten Grafana Labs. You will help uncover, document and manage these risks to ensure regulatory compliance, and prepare risk reports to support informed decision-making. This will report into the Governance, Risk and Compliance group while having broad reach across the company.

Key Responsibilities

Identify and articulate material risks
Ensure consistency between disclosure and operational reality
Quantify exposure where possible
Maintain defensible documentation
Participate in risk identification processes
Evaluate incident response history
Evaluate security maturity
Monitor controls documentation
Map risks to security and compliance controls
Monitor and evaluate evidence retention

What You'll Be Doing

Embed risk into engineering lifecycle
Partner with Security and Platform Engineering
Drive operational risk quantification
Support diligence with architecture fluency
Own the enterprise risk framework
Coordinate with Legal, Finance, and Audit
Build board-level reporting structure

What Makes You a Great Fit

Important: Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, risk management, or a related field.

Experience: Previous experience in risk management, compliance, or analytical roles.

Technical Skills: While this is not an engineering role, knowledge of software development concepts will help immensely.

Certifications: Professional certification, such as a Certified Risk Management Professional (CRMP), is desirable.

Soft Skills: Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Compensation & Rewards

In Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is €85,000 - €103,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.

Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.

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Benefits & Perks

Health & Wellness
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Health Insurance

Health coverage or stipends are provided for Grafanistas in the U.S., U.K., Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, Spain, Australia, and India.

Dental Insurance

Dental insurance is included as part of the U.S. benefits package.

Vision Insurance

Vision insurance is included as part of the U.S. benefits package.

Disability Insurance

Short-term and long-term disability coverage is provided to U.S. employees.

Life Insurance

Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage are provided to U.S. employees.

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

U.S. employees can contribute pre-tax dollars to a Flexible Spending Account for healthcare and dependent-care expenses.

Health Savings Account (HSA)

A Health Savings Account is available to U.S. employees on the high-deductible health plan.

Mental Health Benefits

All Grafanistas receive a complimentary Calm subscription for mindfulness and meditation, and the Wellbeing resource group runs sessions led by team members and external trainers.

Employee Assistance Program

All team members have access to a 100% confidential Global Employee Assistance Program with 24/7/365 access to qualified counsellors and specialists.

Wellness Programs

The Wellbeing employee resource group hosts mindfulness and well-being sessions led by Grafanistas and external trainers throughout the year.

Financial
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401(k) / Retirement Plan

Grafana Labs makes employer retirement contributions (additive to salary) for team members in the U.S., U.K., Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Spain, and Australia.

401(k) Match

U.S. employees receive a 100% 401(k) match on the first 4% of base salary, valued at approximately $4,800 per year.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Grafana Labs offers an Employee Stock Purchase Plan that allows employees to buy company stock through payroll deductions.

Work-Life Balance
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PTO / Vacation

Grafana Labs provides 30 days of paid vacation per year, on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. The policy is global, with local legislation respected where applicable.

Company Shutdown Days

Grafana Labs observes company-wide Shutdown Days each year so the entire team can fully disconnect at the same time. Three days of the global annual leave entitlement are reserved for these shutdowns.

Sick Days

Paid sick leave is provided to all Grafanistas in addition to the 30-day annual vacation allowance.

Professional Growth
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Learning & Development Budget

Each Grafanista receives a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend plus access to thousands of on-demand courses including a Udemy subscription.

Conference Attendance

Grafana Labs funds attendance at industry conferences and trainings; employees are asked to share what they learned with the team.

Mentorship Program

Grafana Labs runs a structured mentorship program for employees seeking career guidance.

Defined Career Pathways

Senior Risk Management Engineer

Job Description

The Opportunity:

What You'll Be Doing

Key Responsibilities

What You'll Be Doing

What Makes You a Great Fit

Compensation & Rewards

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

Compensation

Benefits & Perks

Health & Wellness

Financial

Work-Life Balance

Professional Growth

Tech Stack

JavaScript & Libraries

Frameworks

Infrastructure

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