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Engineering Manager – Observability
Grafana Labs. Manage and develop a team of backend and frontend engineers .
Posted 9/21/2026full-timeRemote • Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Spain, United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 €117,000 - €137,000 per yearWebsite
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in managing and developing engineering teams, with a strong focus on observability and distributed systems principles. Capable of fostering collaboration across functions and cultures while driving innovation and continuous improvement.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Observability ExpertiseOpenTelemetry ExperienceDistributed Systems PrinciplesTeam ManagementAI-Assisted Tooling
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Hard Skills
ObservabilityOpenTelemetryDistributed SystemsScalabilityFault ToleranceConsistencyAI-Powered Tools Integration
Soft Skills
Customer FocusCollaborationCareer Development SupportComplexity Management
Tools & Technologies
Kubernetes Monitoring Helm ChartInstrumentation Hub
Industry Keywords
Fleet ManagementEngineering LeadershipRemote CollaborationPsychological SafetyContinuous Improvement
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesDistributed SystemsKubernetes
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Manage and develop a team of backend and frontend engineers
- Provide regular feedback and support career growth through career conversations
- Collaborate with go-to-market teams to support customers and prospects through their observability collection journey
- Partner with product and engineering leadership on Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub
- Guide projects from ideation through planning, execution, and post-launch
- Foster psychological safety, innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement
- Contribute across team boundaries and partner with other functions to solve customer problems
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience in observability, especially OpenTelemetry, or building a central control plane managing fleets of collectors is a strong advantage
- Comfortable working with autonomous engineering teams
- Current understanding of technical trends and the challenges engineering teams face
- Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment
- Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance
- Strong customer focus
- Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability
- Comfortable using AI-assisted tooling; practical experience integrating AI-powered tools into a team workflow is ideal
- Ability to manage backend and frontend engineers and support their professional growth
Benefits
Comp & perks- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants
- Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
- 100% remote, remote-only global culture
- Career growth pathways
- In-person onboarding
- 30 days of annual leave per annum
- 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
- Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
- Autonomy and support to innovate
- Empowered, high-trust teams
- Approachable, transparent leadership