[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager @Grafana Labs

Role Description

We are looking for a leader to curate and drive our Corporate Engineering team. You will be responsible for finishing the optimization of our current IT operations stack, and be the driver of our internal AI native strategy.

• Lead the team covering a range of existing areas, including corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues, and internal tooling development.
• Handle corporate security initiatives, deploying security and compliance checks in an employee-enabling way (guardrails and paved roads) in their daily workflows.
• Help define our wider internal AI rollout, enablement, and security strategy across all teams, not just developers.
• Manage the relationships, negotiation, and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
• Make all work and costs visible, both internally to the team and enable stakeholder teams to understand their processes and work. Use this visibility to continuously improve processes.
• Understand and, where possible, leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges. Open-source what we come up with for the good of other Grafana users.
• Act as a leader within the larger Foundations department, including all other platform, business application, and security teams.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, coaching, and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Provide continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards.
• Participate in team activities. Be a participant in all work queues. Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming projects, ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. You will be part of your team’s and department's on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Experience running a software engineering operations team.
• Strong engineering background capable of engaging in technical conversations.
• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems commonly used by modern tech companies.
• Approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset, preferring enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks.
• Knowledge of the current AI state of the art, and strong ideas on how to leverage effectively and safely across the enterprise.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator who can articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work Eastern-time oriented hours.

Requirements

• Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers, and Kubernetes expertise is a great plus.
• Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for all core personas.
• A ready plan for how to secure AI.
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products.
• Experience using observability tooling to solve IT or security problems.
• Experience working with OSS communities.

Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• In-Person onboarding – We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’.
• Balance is Key – Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.