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:
Grafana Labs is seeking a passionate Developer Advocate based in Japan to engage with and grow our vibrant open-source community. If you’re excited about observability, teaching, and building relationships with developers in Japan, this is your chance to make a tangible impact.
What You’ll Be Doing:
– Creating technical content such as sample apps, blog posts, and presentations for developers and SREs.
– Participating in conferences, user groups, and online forums to promote Grafana and support our community.
– Acting as an advocate and mentor for new users in Japan.
– Building meaningful relationships within open-source ecosystems, especially those related to CNCF, Prometheus, or Kubernetes.
– Providing user feedback to internal teams to help shape product development.
– Supporting education and enablement for users across various experience levels.
– Collaborating closely with engineers and product teams in an R&D-focused environment.
– Reporting directly to the Japan Country Manager and working with a globally distributed team.
What Makes You a Great Fit:
– Strong technical background, possibly in software development, DevOps, SRE, observability, or system integration.
– Native or fluent Japanese and strong English communication skills.
– Excellent communicator with empathy and patience.
– Confident presenter with experience delivering technical content to diverse audiences.
– Skilled technical writer with a track record of producing developer-facing content.
– Open-source enthusiast who enjoys community engagement.
– Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.
Bonus Points For:
– Experience with observability, telemetry, or APM tools.
– Contributions to open-source communities.
– Familiarity with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
– Experience building or running developer communities or meetups.
*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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