Lead Observability Platform Engineering (Remote)

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 122,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote work

Global team

Job summary

Grafana Cloud is a fully remote observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. The Ingest team builds and maintains tooling—Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub—to enable customers to deploy observability at scale across environments.

The Observability department supports developers to instrument code, ingest data into Grafana Cloud, and visualize it, with collaboration across product, engineering, and GTM to

Qualifications

• Experience in Observability or building central control planes for fleets is a strong advantage.
• Ability to collaborate with autonomous engineering teams across time zones in a fully remote setting.
• Stays current with technical trends to address customer challenges and maintain team performance.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Distributed systems

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Grafana Fleet Management (concepts)

Job description

Grafana Cloud is a fully remote observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. The Ingest team builds and maintains tooling—Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub—to enable customers to deploy observability at scale across environments.

The Observability department supports developers to instrument code, ingest data into Grafana Cloud, and visualize it, with collaboration across product, engineering, and GTM to