Remote Engineering Manager – Observability Platform

Grafana; Greater London; Remote; GBP 103,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote-first culture

30 days annual leave + Shutdown Days

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a leadership role within the Grafana Cloud Observability Ingest team. You will manage a remote, distributed group of engineers across EMEA and NASA, guiding Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and go-to-market to ensure a seamless customer observability journey, while fostering psychological safety and continuous improvement across time zones.

Qualifications

• Experience with Observability and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience building/maintaining a central control plane that manages fleets of collectors.
• Comfort working with autonomous engineering/product teams and stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems: scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, observability.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling and integrating AI into workflows.
• Strong customer focus and impact-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and growth support.
• Collaborate with go-to-market to ensure customers succeed with Observability collection.
• Ensure Fleet Management, Kubernetes Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub fit into Grafana Cloud UX.
• Guide projects from ideation through planning, execution and post-launch with high-quality results.
• Foster a psychologically safe environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across teams to solve customer problems across time zones.

Skills

Observability/OpenTelemetry

Central control plane / fleets

Autonomy in engineering/product teams

Distributed systems (scalability, etc)

AI-assisted tooling

Customer-focused

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a leadership role within the Grafana Cloud Observability Ingest team. You will manage a remote, distributed group of engineers across EMEA and NASA, guiding Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and go-to-market to ensure a seamless customer observability journey, while fostering psychological safety and continuous improvement across time zones.