Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend

Grafana Labs

. Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • CanadaSenior💰 CA$211,450 - CA$253,740 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing distributed engineering teams, with a focus on performance, delivery, and customer outcomes. Proficient in leveraging AI and automation to enhance decision-making, planning, and engineering standards across frontend systems.

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Team LeadershipFrontend Systems ManagementAI and Automation ImplementationProduct and Customer JudgementRemote Team Collaboration

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Hard Skills

Modern Web SystemsFrontend DevelopmentReactTypeScriptAI IntegrationAutomation TechniquesMultitenant SaaS DeliveryInformation ArchitectureObservabilityIncident Investigation

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCoachingFeedback ProvisionProblem-SolvingTeam Development

Tools & Technologies

GrafanaDeveloper PlatformsOpen-Source Development

Industry Keywords

Engineering StandardsRemote WorkDistributed TeamsCustomer OutcomesPerformance Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GrafanaReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads
Own performance, delivery and customer outcomes for two distributed engineering squads
Set expectations, delegate, coach, develop team members, provide feedback and address performance gaps
Own hiring and team planning across both squads
Lead discovery with customers, community members and internal users
Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies and make trade-offs
Own delivery from discovery through rollout and measurement
Use AI to synthesise research and feedback, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination and reporting
Improve planning, decision-making and delivery through AI and automation
Set engineering direction for frontend foundations, developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability and multitenant capabilities
Set engineering direction for navigation, search and resource organisation
Uphold engineering standards for quality, security and operability
Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D to increase engineering productivity
Participate in the engineering management on-call rota and drive improvements reducing recurring disruption
Use Grafana AI capabilities for observability and incident investigation

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders
Strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems
Track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results
Strong product and customer judgement
Clear, concise written communication
Ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation
Appreciation for open-source development
Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work and leading teams to adopt them
Applicants must be from Canada and in EST time zones
Bonus: Experience with React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems
Bonus: Experience leading a developer platform team, including support for plugins or extensions
Bonus: Experience with navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management products
Bonus: Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations
Bonus: Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product

Benefits

Comp & perks

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants
100% remote, 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 ship great work
High-trust, low-ego culture
Approachable and involved leadership