Remote Engineering Manager - Observability Platform

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 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