Senior Engineering Manager (Grafana Frontend)

Grafana; Ireland; Remote; EUR 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Healthcare stipend

Pension contributions

Learning & development stipend

Remote-first with home-office stipend

Choice of hardware

Headspace mindfulness subscription

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Grafana, an open-source observability platform, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning performance, delivery and customer outcomes.

You'll develop senior engineers, partner with Product and Design, and drive improvements through AI and automation, while championing developer productivity and reliable, high-quality frontend experiences across a broadly distributed team.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders.
• Practical experience using AI and automation in your leadership work, and leading teams to adopt them effectively.
• Clear, concise written communication and the ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation.
• A track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results, managing delivery risks and operational demands.
• Strong product and customer judgement, with the ability to connect engineering investments to user, developer and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead two distributed engineering squads: set clear expectations, delegate effectively, coach and develop each team member, and address performance gaps.
• Own hiring and team planning across both squads, aligning capacity with product priorities and longer-term needs.
• Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies and trade-offs between customer needs and operational demands.
• Own delivery from discovery through rollout and measurement: set milestones, surface risks early, intervene when commitments are at risk.
• Use AI regularly in management work to synthesise research and feedback, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend architecture

Leadership experience

Open-source mindset

Platform ownership

Tools

OpenAI integration

CI/CD tooling

Job description

• Grafana is an open-source observability product and a platform that teams and plugin developers build on
• The Frontend group shapes its user experience (from dashboards and visualisation to navigation, search and sharing) and the foundations that support engineering teams and community contributors across the Grafana ecosystem
• As Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning their performance, delivery and customer outcomes
• Frontend Platform enables teams to build reliable, high-quality experiences; Navigation helps users find and organise resources and move confidently through Grafana
• You'll develop senior engineers, partner with Product and Design, and improve how teams work, including through AI and automation
• We use Cloud-first rollout and experimentation to learn quickly, bringing relevant improvements to OSS and Enterprise
• AI Notice: 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 with strong code review and quality standards
• You'll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
• Be accountable for the performance of two distributed engineering squads: set clear expectations, delegate effectively, coach and develop each team member, give timely feedback, address performance gaps and build a culture of trust and accountability
• Own hiring and team planning across both squads, aligning team capacity and skills with product priorities and longer-term needs
• Lead discovery with your squads: engage directly with customers, community members and internal users, combine their feedback with research and usage evidence, and use those insights to shape roadmaps and priorities
• Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies and make trade-offs between customer needs, long-term investments and operational demands
• Own delivery across both squads from discovery through rollout and measurement: set milestones, surface risks early and intervene when commitments are at risk
• Use AI regularly in your management work to synthesise research and feedback, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination, reporting and follow-through
• Improve how the squads plan, make decisions and deliver. Lead the adoption of AI and automation across engineering and operational workflows, evaluating their impact on delivery speed, quality and time spent on repetitive work
• Set engineering direction with senior engineers for the frontend foundations owned by your squads, including developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability and multitenant capabilities
• Set engineering direction for navigation, search and resource organisation, including where AI-assisted discovery can help users find what they need
• Set and uphold engineering standards for quality, security and operability, including how teams evaluate and validate AI-assisted work
• Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D that increase engineering productivity and improve business outcomes
• Participate in the engineering management on-call rota, coordinate responses and drive improvements that reduce recurring disruption. Regularly use Grafana's AI capabilities for observability, incident investigation and management, bringing that experience into product feedback and roadmap decisions

Benefits

• Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
• Healthcare: We're proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
• Retirement planning: There's no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
• Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
• Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, We'll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
• Choice of tech: There's no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we'll refresh them every three years
• Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
• Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
• Paid parental leave: Grafana offers paid parental leave to all eligible new parents. This offers Grafanistas time to bond with and care for their children in the first year after birth or adoption

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

• Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders.
• You give clear feedback and address performance gaps directly and fairly
• Practical experience using AI and automation in your own leadership work, and leading teams to adopt them effectively
• Clear, concise written communication and the ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation
• A track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results, managing delivery risks and operational demands
• Strong product and customer judgement, with the ability to connect engineering investments to user, developer and business outcomes
• A strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems, enabling you to evaluate technical trade-offs and shape architectural and engineering-quality decisions with senior engineers
• An appreciation for open-source development and the judgement to balance Cloud-first delivery with the needs of customers, community members and internal teams
• Experience with React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems
• Experience leading a developer platform team, including support for plugins or extensions
• Experience with navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management products
• Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations
• Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product