Remote Observability Platform Engineering Manager

Grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 89,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote-first

AI tooling budget

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a remote senior engineering leader to manage backend and frontend teams responsible for Grafana Cloud components. You will guide architecture, ownership, and delivery of Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub, ensuring a seamless end-to-end user experience across global deployments.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and GTM to align priorities, drive high-quality results, and foster a culture of innovation in a fully remote,

Qualifications

• Experience leading backend and frontend engineering teams.
• Strong background in observability or central control planes for fleets of collectors.
• Comfort collaborating across time zones in a fully remote environment.
• Able to translate customer needs into technical decisions and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the team of backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting growth.
• Collaborate with go-to-market to ensure customers succeed with Observability collection journeys.
• Ensure Fleet Management, Kubernetes Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub fit end-to-end Grafana Cloud UX.
• Guide projects from ideation through planning, execution and post-launch.
• Foster a psychologically safe environment encouraging experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Work across teams to solve customer problems and align with broader company initiatives.

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Observability

AI tooling

Remote collaboration

Stakeholder management

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a remote senior engineering leader to manage backend and frontend teams responsible for Grafana Cloud components. You will guide architecture, ownership, and delivery of Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub, ensuring a seamless end-to-end user experience across global deployments.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and GTM to align priorities, drive high-quality results, and foster a culture of innovation in a fully remote,