Engineering Manager - Observability | Ireland | Remote

Grafana Labs; Dublin; Remote; EUR 117,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Job summary

Grafana Labs is expanding its remote team to scale Grafana Cloud, an open, interoperable observability platform trusted by thousands of organizations. This role leads a distributed backend and frontend engineering team across EMEA and beyond, guiding product and engineering leadership to ensure cohesive Fleet Management, Helm Chart deployments, and Instrumentation Hub experiences.

You will shape the team culture in a remote-first environment, promote AI-assisted development, and collaborate

Qualifications

• Experience in Observability (OpenTelemetry) or building a central control plane.
• Comfort leading a remote, multi-national engineering team.
• Ability to align stakeholders and drive high-quality results.
• Strong communication across time zones and cultures.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a remote backend/frontend engineering team.
• Collaborate with go-to-market to ensure customer success with observability collection journey.
• Ensure Fleet Management, Kubernetes Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub fit end-to-end Grafana cloud UX.
• Provide project lifecycle guidance from ideation through post-launch.

Skills

Observability/OpenTelemetry

Distributed systems

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-time-zone collaboration

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

OpenAI tools

AI coding assistants

Job description

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

The Opportunity

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.

What is the Ingest team?

We build and maintain the configuration and deployment tooling that bridges the gap between "I want observability" and "I have observability,". To achieve this the team owns Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Fleet Management is the cloud-based central control plane our customers use to manage hundreds of thousands of Observability Collectors in the wild. The Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart is used to effectively deploy Observability Collection in Kubernetes based environments. The Instrumentation Hub seamlessly combines Fleet Management and the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart to achieve a magic 1-command instrumentation experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Manage and develop the team of backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations. This is a remote team, distributed between EMEA and NASA.
• Collaborate closely with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects are successful with their Observability collection journey.
• Work closely with product and engineering leadership to ensure Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub fit seamlessly into the end-to-end user experience for Grafana cloud products.
• Provide guidance throughout the project lifecycle from early ideation through planning, execution and post‑launch guiding the team to deliver high‑quality results consistently.
• Foster a psychologically safe environment where engineers can learn, experiment and iterate quickly, encouraging innovation and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Work across team boundaries by contributing to projects outside your team’s scope and partnering with other functions to solve customer problems.

As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software.

We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI‑assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow‑ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards. You'll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Experience in either of these areas is a strong advantage: Observability (especially OpenTelemetry), or building a central control plane that manages fleets of collectors.
• 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.
• 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.
• Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment, using clear, empathetic communication to build trust, connection, and psychological safety.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance to deliver meaningful, high‑quality results.
• Deeply customer‑focused, consistently grounding decisions and technical choices in user needs and real‑world impact.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability.
• 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.

Compensation & Rewards

In Ireland, the Base compensation range for this role is EU 117,000 - EU 137,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested