Grafana Labs
Open-source
EngineeringManager-Mimir
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“Engineering Manager - Mimir at Grafana Labs. Skills: People management, Technical leadership, Distributed systems, Cloud-native development, Open-source contribution. Manage, hire, and develop a team of engineers. Provide regular feedback and support career growth”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver meaningful, high-quality results; Optimize the efficiency and resilience of processing, storing, and querying metrics at large volumes; Keep the offering competitive and running smoothly
Industry & Context.
Navigate ambiguity and drive work forward in complex problem spaces; Challenging teams to arrive at technical decisions themselves
Candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only, Remote position
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Manage, hire, and develop a team of engineers, Providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations, Act as project manager, Working with product owners to ensure the product roadmap is defined and up-to-date, Technical background and are capable of engaging in technical conversations and challenging teams to arrive at technical decisions themselves, Comfortable working with engineering teams who have a sense of autonomy in their decision making, be it technical or product focussed, Interacting with customers will occasionally occur, Keep up-to-date with the latest technical trends and shifts in order to maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face, Experienced people manager, capable of coaching senior engineers to grow into their careers by working on complex projects while supporting our operations, Motivated self-starter with a bias toward action and ownership, able to navigate ambiguity and drive work forward in complex problem spaces, Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment, Experienced in guiding and supporting other engineers, leading initiatives or small teams, and collaborating effectively to drive projects to successful outcomes, Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance to deliver meaningful, high-quality results, Deeply customer-focused, consistently grounding decisions and technical choices in user needs and real-world impact, Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, production-readiness, and observability, Comfort with AI-assisted tooling, Curious and comfortable using AI-powered tools
Nice to Have
Computer Science degree or equivalent experience from having worked as an engineer before moving into Management, Conceptual familiarity with Kubernetes and Helm is valuable, Knowledge around distributed systems is appreciated, Practical experience folding AI-powered tools into a team’s workflow
What You'll Do.
and develop a team of engineers
Provide regular feedback and support career growth
Act as project manager
Work with product owners to define and update the product roadmap
Engage in technical conversations and challenge teams on technical decisions
Support engineering teams with autonomy in decision-making
Interact with customers
Stay up-to-date with technical trends
Coach senior engineers
Drive work forward in complex problem spaces
Collaborate across time zones and cultures
Guide and support other engineers
Lead initiatives or small teams
Collaborate effectively to drive projects
Elevate team performance
Ground decisions in user needs
Utilize AI-assisted tooling
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Facilitating cross-team collaboration and understanding; Working with engineering teams who have a sense of autonomy; Collaborating across time zones and cultures; Collaborating effectively to drive projects to successful outcomes; Aligning stakeholders
Communication Scope
Clear, empathetic communication
Process & Methodology
Act as project manager, Ensure the product roadmap is defined and up-to-date, Drive projects to successful outcomes
Full Job Description
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo). We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. Engineering Manager - Mimir This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only. The Opportunity: Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack. The Databases department owns and operates the telemetry databases that are Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. We offer our databases as a service within Grafana Cloud. The Metrics group, part of the Databases department, has the mission of ensuring that we provide the most-scalable,
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