Senior Eng Manager Grafana Frontend - Remote EU

Grafana Labs; United States; Remote; USD 139,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Company-funded AI tool budget

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Grafana Frontend with two distributed squads: Frontend Platform and Navigation. You will lead performance, delivery, and customer outcomes while coaching senior engineers and partnering with Product and Design to set strategic roadmaps.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development and remote collaboration across 40+ countries. You’ll manage delivery end-to-end, influence engineering standards, and drive innovations that boost

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing senior engineers and developing technical leaders.
• Strong frontend technical foundation enabling architectural decisions with senior engineers.
• Proven ability to drive cross-team priorities and measurable results.

Responsibilities

• Lead two distributed frontend Platform and Navigation squads; set expectations and coach engineers.
• Own hiring and team planning aligned with product priorities.
• Partner with Product/Design; shape roadmaps using feedback and data.
• Drive AI adoption and automation to improve delivery speed and quality.
• Oversee delivery from discovery to rollout with risk management and milestones.

Skills

Frontend leadership

People management

AI in leadership

Remote collaboration

React

TypeScript

Tools

React

TypeScript

Job description

Senior Eng Manager Grafana Frontend - Remote EU — Chicago

This is a fully remote, async-friendly senior management role at a company with 40+ countries of team coverage — genuinely one of the most location-flexible engineering management positions available at a well-funded scale-up. Grafana Labs is 100% remote by design, not by exception.

Timezone considerations: The salary is benchmarked to Germany (CET/CEST), which implies a European timezone preference for team overlap. The two squads you'd manage are distributed globally, so expect some async communication, but core coordination hours will likely center on European business hours. Nomads in UTC-2 to UTC+5 corridors would have the most comfortable overlap.

Visa angles: Compensation of €124k–€149k opens doors to many European digital nomad visa programs. Portugal's D8 visa (income threshold ~€3,040/month) and Spain's Digital Nomad Visa (~€2,160/month minimum) are well within reach. Germany's Freiberufler visa is also an option for longer stays.

Cost-of-living context at ~€137k/year (midpoint):

• Lisbon: Comfortable senior lifestyle; ~€3,000–4,500/month living costs. This salary leaves significant savings runway.
• Bangkok: ~€1,500–2,500/month — exceptionally comfortable with this income.

The company-funded AI tool budget is a genuine travel-friendly perk — no need to expense personal subscriptions. No explicit coworking or equipment stipend is mentioned, but the role's seniority and RSU package make it financially viable to self-fund any workspace needs.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X .

We're scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

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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.

Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend

The Opportunity:

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.

What You'll Be Doing:

• 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.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders. You give clear feedback and address performance gaps directly and fairly.
• 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.
• 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.
• Clear, concise written communication and the ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation.
• An appreciation for open-source development and the judgement to balance Cloud-first delivery with the needs of customers, community members and internal teams.
• Practical experience using AI and automation in your own leadership work, and leading teams to adopt them effectively.

Bonus Points For:

• 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.

Compensation & Rewards:

In Germany, the base compensation range for this role is EUR 124,571 – EUR 149,485. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process.

All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market's defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

Why You'll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture – As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• In-Person Onboarding – We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
• Balance is Key – We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.

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Is this role truly remote or is there a requirement to be based in Germany? The role is 100% remote — Grafana Labs is a fully remote company with team members across 40+ countries. The Germany salary range is listed as a benchmark, and your recruiter will confirm the pay range for your specific location if you're based elsewhere. What is the compensation for this role? In Germany, the base salary range is EUR 124,571 – EUR 149,485. All roles also include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Compensation varies by location, so your recruiter will discuss your local market range early in the process. How many engineers would I be managing in this role? You will lead two distributed engineering squads — the Frontend Platform squad and the Navigation squad — though exact headcount per squad is not specified in the posting. Is prior open-source experience required? It's not listed as a hard requirement, but an appreciation for open-source development and the ability to balance cloud‑first delivery with community needs is explicitly called out as essential. Experience with a widely adopted open-source product is listed as a bonus. Does the role involve any on-call responsibilities? Yes — you'll participate in the engineering management on-call rota, coordinate incident responses, and drive improvements to reduce recurring disruption, leveraging Grafana's own AI observability capabilities.

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