Observability Platform Engineering Manager

Engg; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs, the company behind Grafana Cloud, is hiring to lead a remote Observability-focused engineering team. You will oversee backend and frontend engineers distributed across EMEA, partnering with product and engineering leadership to deliver Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub within Grafana Cloud.

You will influence architecture while fostering a culture of innovation, psychological safety, and customer-centric delivery, leveraging

Qualifications

• Experience in Observability or central control plane.
• Comfortable coordinating across time zones in a fully remote setting.
• Strong customer focus and ability to align engineering work with user needs.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the backend and frontend engineering team.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to align on roadmaps.
• Foster a psychologically safe environment that supports experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of observability projects, ensuring quality and impact.

Skills

Observability experience

Leadership

Distributed systems knowledge

OpenTelemetry

Remote collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm charts

Instrumentation Hub

AI-assisted tooling

Job description

Grafana Labs, the company behind Grafana Cloud, is hiring to lead a remote Observability-focused engineering team. You will oversee backend and frontend engineers distributed across EMEA, partnering with product and engineering leadership to deliver Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub within Grafana Cloud.

You will influence architecture while fostering a culture of innovation, psychological safety, and customer-centric delivery, leveraging