About the role

Role overview

Engineering Manager for the Alloy team at Grafana Labs (fully remote). You will lead and develop engineers, partner with the OpenTelemetry collector community, and drive customer success through strong collaboration with product and engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

Manage and grow an engineering team (provide regular feedback and support individual development)
Collaborate with the OpenTelemetry collector community to support adoption and success
Work with product and engineering leadership to guide work through the full project lifecycle (from early ideation to execution and launch)
Ensure a psychologically safe environment and foster autonomy and high performance
Ground decisions in customer needs and real-world impact
Contribute to projects beyond your immediate team’s scope as needed

Requirements

Solid understanding of distributed systems (scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, observability)
Ability to manage autonomy-driven engineering teams (technical and/or product-focused)
Strong customer focus and decision-making grounded in user needs
Keep up with technical trends to understand challenges teams face
Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures with clear, empathetic communication
Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance

Nice-to-haves

Domain knowledge in observability and OpenTelemetry sufficient to manage a team closely collaborating with the OpenTelemetry collector community

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is a software company focused on observability and analytics platforms. It builds tools that help teams monitor, understand, and troubleshoot systems, including integrations and community efforts around OpenTelemetry.