[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend @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 your own 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.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.