Opportunity

Senior Pre-Sales SE at Grafana Labs | RSUs + Growth in Columbus

Location Columbus
Company Grafana Labs
Source jobicy
Posted 2026-10-29 16:30:00

Career & Market Insight

This is a senior pre-sales / Solutions Engineering role at one of the most prominent observability companies in the world. With 10,000+ enterprise customers and backing from Sequoia and Lightspeed, Grafana Labs is a credible, high-growth employer — not a risky early-stage bet.

Compensation benchmark: The SEK 1,119,000–1,400,000 OTE (~€97K–€122K) is competitive for senior SE roles in Sweden, where market rates for pre-sales engineers typically range SEK 900K–1,300K. The upper end and RSU component put this above average for the Swedish market.

Skills you'll build:

  • Deep expertise in observability, cloud-native monitoring, and the Grafana ecosystem (Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Grafana Cloud)
  • Enterprise sales motion skills: MEDD(P)ICC, competitive positioning, technical demos
  • Cross-functional influence — bridging Product, Engineering, and Sales
  • Content creation skills: blog posts, knowledge base articles, enablement videos

Green flags: 100% remote culture, 30-day PTO, RSUs for all employees, defined career growth pathways, and transparent leadership. The open-source culture signals a technically credible environment where SEs are respected contributors, not just order-takers.

Watch for: The dual expectation of technical depth AND sales execution can be demanding. The role requires being comfortable in competitive deals and customer-facing pressure, not purely technical work. Candidates without pre-sales experience may find the ramp steep.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives.

Customers including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, 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 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 helping close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
  • Delivering product and technical presentations to potential and existing customers
  • Effectively communicating 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
  • Open to various and complex assignments — this will require strong judgment, collaboration, and leadership
  • First-class written and oral communication skills to collaborate with our remote-first internal teams and worldwide customers; ability 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 customers
  • A technical mindset and a desire to grow technically
  • Must be located in Sweden

Bonus Points For:

  • Experience with open source technologies, or in the Metrics/Monitoring space
  • Experience with sales methodologies like MEDD(P)ICC

Compensation & Rewards

In Sweden, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is SEK 1,119,000 – SEK 1,400,000. 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: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this Solutions Engineer role fully remote?
Yes, Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company. However, candidates must be located in Sweden to be eligible for this specific role.
What is the salary range for this role in Sweden?
The OTE (On-Target Earnings) range in Sweden is SEK 1,119,000 to SEK 1,400,000, plus Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all team members. Actual compensation varies based on experience and level.
How much annual leave do Grafana Labs employees receive?
Grafana Labs offers 30 days of annual leave globally, including 3 reserved Grafana Shutdown Days where the entire company disconnects simultaneously.
What technical background is required for this role?
The role requires 5+ years of technical pre-sales experience. Experience with open source technologies, metrics/monitoring platforms, or sales methodologies like MEDD(P)ICC is a bonus but not required.
What does the Solutions Engineer role involve day-to-day?
You'll work alongside the Sales team to deliver technical demos and presentations, own technical evaluations with prospects, provide product feedback to engineering, and create enablement content such as blog posts and knowledge base articles.
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