Engineering Manager (Observability)

About the role

Join Grafana Labs as an Engineering Manager for our Observability department. In this role, you will manage and develop a remote team of backend and frontend engineers, collaborate with go-to-market teams, and work closely with product and engineering leadership. You will guide the team throughout the project lifecycle, foster a psychologically safe environment, and contribute to projects outside your team's scope. Enjoy benefits such as 30 days of paid vacation, healthcare coverage, retirement planning, professional development opportunities, and a fully remote work environment. Key missions: Manage and develop a team of backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.. Collaborate closely with go-to-market teams to ensure customers and prospects are successful with their Observability collection journey.. Provide guidance throughout the project lifecycle from early ideation through planning, execution and post-launch, guiding the team to deliver high-quality results consistently. Profile: - You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity - Comfort with AI-assisted tooling. We embrace AI and agentic development so we expect you to be curious and comfortable using AI-powered tools and ideally have practical experience folding them into a team’s workflow - Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment, using clear, empathetic communication to build trust, connection, and psychological safety - Deeply customer-focused, consistently grounding decisions and technical choices in user needs and real-world impact - You will be comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, be it technical or product focused - Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance to deliver meaningful, high-quality results - While you’re great with people and adept at managing relationships, you still keep up-to-date with the latest technical trends and shifts in order to maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face - Experience in either of these areas is a strong advantage: Observability (especially OpenTelemetry), or building a central control plane that manages fleets of collectors - Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability