Senior Solutions Engineer | Germany | Remote
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs engages directly with customers, leveraging technical expertise to address their needs and facilitate successful product adoption. The position requires strong pre-sales experience, excellent communication skills, and a solid understanding of Grafana's technology stack, including observability tools. Ideal candidates are seasoned professionals who thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy solving complex technical challenges. Grafana Labs fosters a remote-first culture that emphasizes innovation and transparency, making it an exciting place for growth.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Grafana Labs's career page.
- Grafana Labs has 148 other open roles including Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting | Germany | Remote, Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting | Ireland | Remote, Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting | Spain | Remote.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Other (median ~$114,300).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Solutions Engineer | Germany | Remote role remote?
- Yes — Grafana Labs lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Grafana Labs lists €124,000–€147,800 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Solutions Engineer | Germany | Remote role.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Grafana Labs targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Solutions Engineer | Germany | Remote role at Grafana Labs.
From the original posting
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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
The Solutions Engineering team are the customer facing product experts. The team enables Grafana Labs worldwide growth by educating potential and existing customers to ensure that they are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers through demos, hands on enablement, presentations, technical evaluations and ongoing interaction. We partner closely with our Sales team to help qualify and close opportunities. The Solutions Engineering team is one of the primary routes of communication from our customers to the Product Management and Engineering teams.
A Solutions Engineer is able to really listen to a prospect or customer, understand their requirements, ask the right questions to extract as much information as required and translate all that into a solution with Grafana Labs technology. They are the bridge between the highly technical engineering folks here at Grafana Labs, our customers and our Sales team.
What You'll Be Doing
- Partnering with our Sales team to articulate the overall Grafana value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
- Owning the technical engagement with customers and help close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill and credibility
- Delivering product and technical presentations to potential and existing customers
- Effectively communicate with customers and internal teams to provide feedback on our products and the competitive landscape
- Driving product conversations based on need and problems with customers
- Working with the team to enhance documentation, write blog posts, record videos, contribute knowledge base articles and create other public or private enablement material
What Makes you a Great Fit:
- 5+ years of technical pre-sales experience
- Be open to various and complex assignments, this will require strong judgment, collaboration, and leadership
- You will need first class written and oral communication skills to collaborate with our remote-first internal teams and with our worldwide customers. You will need to be able to skillfully articulate our value proposition and the technical advantages of our products
- You love solving technical challenges and thrive on bringing creative solutions to our customers
- You should have a technical mindset and a desire to grow technically.
- Must be located in Germany
Bonus Points For:
- Experience with Open Source technologies, or in the Metrics/Monitoring space is an advantage
- Experience with sales methodologies like MEDD(P)ICC is a plus
Compensation & Rewards
In Germany, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is EUR 124,000 - EUR 147,800. 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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