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:
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.