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Grafana Labs

Engineering Manager – Observability

Grafana Labs

. Manage and develop a team of backend and frontend engineers .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeRemote • Spain, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 €94,000 - €117,000 per yearWebsite

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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 driving continuous improvement while maintaining a deep customer focus.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Observability ExpertiseTeam ManagementDistributed Systems PrinciplesAI-Assisted Tooling IntegrationCross-Functional Collaboration

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Hard Skills
OpenTelemetryFleet ManagementKubernetes MonitoringDistributed SystemsScalabilityFault ToleranceConsistencyObservability
Soft Skills
Career Development SupportPsychological SafetyInnovationCollaboration Across CulturesStakeholder Alignment
Tools & Technologies
Grafana CloudAI-Powered Tools
Industry Keywords
Engineering Team ChallengesRemote Work EnvironmentCustomer Focus

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaKubernetes

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 to integrate Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub into Grafana Cloud’s end-to-end user experience
  • 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
  • Keeps up-to-date with technical trends and understands engineering team challenges
  • Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance
  • Deep 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
  • Experience managing backend and frontend engineers

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, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
  • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
  • Autonomy and support to innovate
  • Empowered, high-trust teams
  • Approachable leadership