Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £117.9k - £141.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Grafana Labs

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in open-source observability technologies and solutions. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for logging, metrics, tracing, and profile management with products like Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. Their offerings are designed to help businesses visualize, monitor, and alert on data from various sources, providing capabilities such as anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and service level objective management using AI/ML insights. Grafana Labs provides both cloud-based and self-managed solutions, ideal for infrastructure, application, and frontend observability. Additionally, their platform supports integration with various data sources like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, making them a key player in the observability and infrastructure monitoring space.

📋 Description

• Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning performance, delivery and customer outcomes • Set expectations, delegate, coach and develop team members, provide feedback, address performance gaps, and build trust and accountability • Own hiring and team planning across both squads • Lead discovery with customers, community members and internal users to shape roadmaps and priorities • Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies and make trade-offs • Own delivery from discovery through rollout and measurement, setting milestones and managing risks • Use AI in management work to synthesize research, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination and reporting • Improve squad planning, decision-making and delivery through AI and automation • Set engineering direction for frontend foundations, developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability and multitenant capabilities • Set engineering direction for navigation, search and resource organization, including AI-assisted discovery • Uphold quality, security and operability standards, including validation of AI-assisted work • Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D to increase engineering productivity and business outcomes • Participate in the engineering management on-call rota and drive improvements that reduce recurring disruption • Use Grafana’s AI capabilities for observability and incident investigation, contributing to product feedback and roadmap decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders • Strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems • Track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results • Strong product and customer judgement • Clear, concise written communication • Ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation • Appreciation for open-source development • Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work • Experience with React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems (bonus) • Experience leading a developer platform team, including support for plugins or extensions (bonus) • Experience with navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management products (bonus) • Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations (bonus) • Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product (bonus)

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Company-funded AI coding assistant usage budget • Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google • 100% remote, global culture • Career growth pathways • In-person onboarding • 30 days annual leave per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates • Autonomy and support to ship great work • High-trust, low-ego culture • Approachable, transparent leadership