Remote Engineering Manager — Observability & Fleet Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs, a remote-first observability company, is seeking a senior leader to guide the Ingest team across Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub.

You will mentor backend and frontend engineers, collaborate with go-to-market, and align product and engineering to deliver a seamless Grafana Cloud experience.

This role emphasizes autonomy, global collaboration, and a culture of innovation with a focus on observability and AI-assisted development.

Qualifications

• Experience in observability or central control planes that manage fleets of collectors.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems principles and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the team of backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.
• 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

Job description

Grafana Labs, a remote-first observability company, is seeking a senior leader to guide the Ingest team across Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub.

You will mentor backend and frontend engineers, collaborate with go-to-market, and align product and engineering to deliver a seamless Grafana Cloud experience.

This role emphasizes autonomy, global collaboration, and a culture of innovation with a focus on observability and AI-assisted development.