Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend

🕒 September 18

🌐 United Kingdom, Canada, +5 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇸🇪 Sweden – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – 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 their performance, delivery and customer outcomes • Set expectations, delegate, coach and develop team members, provide feedback, address performance gaps and build 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; set milestones and manage risks • Use AI to synthesise research, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination and reporting • Improve planning, decision-making and delivery processes; lead AI and automation adoption • Set engineering direction for frontend foundations, developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability and multitenant capabilities • Set engineering direction for navigation, search and resource organisation • Uphold engineering standards for quality, security and operability, including validation of AI-assisted work • Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D that increase engineering productivity and business outcomes • Participate in the engineering management on-call rota and drive improvements that reduce recurring disruption • Use Grafana AI capabilities for observability and incident investigation, incorporating findings into 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 leading teams to adopt AI and automation effectively • Bonus: 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants • 100% remote work • Career growth pathways • In-person onboarding • 30 days annual leave per annum • 3 annual leave days reserved for 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