Engineering Manager - Observability | UK | Remote
Grafana Labs · Remote · Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, UK ·
COMPENSATION
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- Fully remote (EU/UK)
- Engineering Manager
- Observability focus
- Kubernetes & Helm
- RSUs included
Grafana Labs seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the Ingest team within the Observability department. This group builds configuration and deployment tooling, including Fleet Management and the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, to simplify observability collection for customers.
You will manage a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers, fostering a culture of autonomy and continuous improvement. The role involves close collaboration with product leadership and go-to-market teams to ensure seamless user experiences across Grafana Cloud products.
What you'll do
- Manage and develop backend and frontend engineers through feedback and career conversations
- Collaborate with go-to-market teams to support customer success in observability collection
- Partner with product and engineering leadership on Fleet Management and Instrumentation Hub
- Guide projects from ideation to post-launch to ensure high-quality delivery
- Foster a psychologically safe environment that encourages experimentation and innovation
- Contribute to cross-team projects and partner with other functions to solve customer problems
What you'll need
- Experience in Observability, OpenTelemetry, or building central control planes for collector fleets
- Comfortable managing autonomous engineering teams with strong technical or product focus
- Ability to stay updated on technical trends to understand team challenges
- Strong communication skills for collaborating across time zones and cultures remotely
- Proven ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance
- Deep customer focus when making decisions and technical choices
- Solid understanding of distributed systems principles like scalability and fault tolerance
- Comfort with AI-assisted tooling and integrating them into team workflows
Stack
- Grafana Cloud
- Prometheus
- Mimir
- Loki
- Tempo
- Pyroscope
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- OpenTelemetry
How you'll work
- 100% remote company with team members in 40+ countries
- Candidates considered in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, and UK only
- Distributed team between EMEA and North America time zones
- In-person onboarding provided for new hires
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
What you get
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all team members
- Company-funded budget for AI coding assistant usage
- Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
- 3 reserved shutdown days for disconnecting
- Transparent decision-making and regular company-wide updates
- Defined career growth pathways and approachable leadership