Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend

Grafana Labs

. Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning performance, delivery and customer outcomes .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • SpainSenior💰 €106,680 - €128,016 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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

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Frontend Engineering LeadershipAI and Automation ImplementationTeam Development and CoachingProduct and Customer JudgementCross-Team Collaboration

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Hard Skills

Modern Web SystemsFrontend SystemsReactTypeScriptInformation ArchitectureMultitenant SaaSOpen-Source DevelopmentPlugins or Extensions DevelopmentPerformance ManagementRisk Management

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationTeam BuildingRemote CollaborationFeedback DeliveryProblem Solving

Tools & Technologies

GrafanaAI CapabilitiesAutomation ToolsObservability ToolsIncident Management Tools

Industry Keywords

Engineering StandardsCustomer OutcomesSquad PlanningDelivery ManagementResource Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GrafanaReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning performance, delivery and customer outcomes
Set expectations, delegate, coach, develop team members, provide feedback and address performance gaps
Own hiring and team planning across two distributed engineering squads
Lead discovery with customers, community members and internal users to shape roadmaps and priorities
Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies and make trade-offs
Own delivery from discovery through rollout and measurement, setting milestones and managing risks
Use AI to synthesise research, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination and reporting
Improve squad 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, including validation of AI-assisted work
Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D to increase engineering productivity and business outcomes
Participate in the engineering management on-call rota and drive improvements that reduce recurring disruption
Use Grafana’s AI capabilities for observability, incident investigation and management

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
React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystem experience (bonus)
Developer platform team leadership experience, including plugins or extensions (bonus)
Navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management product experience (bonus)
Multitenant SaaS or major platform migration experience (bonus)
Widely adopted open-source product experience (bonus)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants
Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
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, transparent leadership