[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager @Grafana Labs

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders.
• A strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems.
• A track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results.
• Strong product and customer judgement.
• Clear, concise written communication.
• An appreciation for open-source development.
• Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work.

Requirements

• Be accountable for the performance of two distributed engineering squads.
• Own hiring and team planning across both squads.
• Lead discovery with your squads.
• Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders.
• Own delivery across both squads from discovery through rollout and measurement.
• Use AI regularly in your management work.
• Improve how the squads plan, make decisions and deliver.
• Set engineering direction with senior engineers.
• Set engineering direction for navigation, search and resource organisation.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for quality, security and operability.
• Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D.
• Participate in the engineering management on-call rota.

Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture.
• Scaling Organization.
• Transparent Communication.
• Innovation-Driven.
• Open Source Roots.
• Empowered Teams.
• Career Growth Pathways.
• Approachable Leadership.
• Passionate People.
• In-Person onboarding.
• Balance is Key - 30 days annual leave.

Compensation & Rewards

In Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 106,680 - EUR 128,016. 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.

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.