Grafana Labs
Tech / AI / Software
SeniorEngineeringManager,GrafanaBackend
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“Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Backend at Grafana Labs. Skills: People management, Technical leadership, Backend architecture, Delivery management, AI-assisted development. Managing a team of distributed engineers. Helping engineers perform at their best”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver on the application platform which will unlock multi-tenancy in Grafana; Meet growing demand; Deliver the best developer experience; Ensure features are delivered; Demonstrate OKRs
Industry & Context.
Removing blockers and impediments; Aiding the team in helping themselves by constantly improving and refining their working practices; Help remove impediments
EST working hours preferred
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Software engineering background, Capable of engaging in technical conversations, Challenge teams to arrive at technical decisions together, Technical foundation is essential for success, Work with your team to set milestones, Clearly communicate delivery timelines, Help remove impediments, Work closely with stakeholders and product managers to ensure the product roadmap is defined and up-to-date, Collaborate with others to ensure the product direction aligns with our company mission, Define OKRs to demonstrate that, Focus on quality above speed of delivery, Encourage a short feedback cycle and experimentation, Comfortable working with engineering teams who have a sense of autonomy in their decision making, Keep up-to-date with the latest technical trends and shifts, Maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face, Use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow, Pragmatic AI-assisted development, Paired with code review and quality standards, Regular and frequent 1:1s to ensure that our direct reports are motivated, happy, and engaged, Coach, mentor, and advise, Provide continuous feedback to engineers, Gathering a range of opinions from both engineers and management to define upcoming features, Contributing to design documents, Attending and contributing to open discussions, Reach out to URM’s to try and diversify the voices here in Grafana, Ensure features are well-defined and ready for development, Set the wheels in motion to make sure they are delivered, Respectfully empowered to start up new initiatives, Contribute to on-going ones, Encourage and nurture others to do the same, Working with the community is something that happens regularly, Default to transparency and try to be as open with everyone
Nice to Have
Experience with Go on back-end development, Access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro)
What You'll Do.
Managing a team of distributed engineers
Helping engineers perform at their best
Evolving the backend of the Grafana visualization product
Architecting and delivering an exceptional Grafana core platform
Supporting high demand services
Leveraging Grafana to observe infrastructure and software lifecycle
Delivering on the application platform to unlock multi-tenancy
Research to help deliver the best developer experience
Communicating delivery timelines
Ensuring the product roadmap is defined and up-to-date
Ensuring the product direction aligns with company mission
Encouraging experimentation
Facilitating cross-team collaboration
Improving and refining working practices
Regular 1:1s with direct reports
Providing continuous feedback to engineers
Gathering diverse perspectives for feature definition
Contributing to design documents
Participating in open discussions
Reaching out to URM's for diversity
Ensuring features are well-defined
Starting up new initiatives
Contributing to ongoing initiatives
Encouraging and nurturing others
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Facilitating cross-team collaboration and understanding; Working closely with stakeholders and product managers; Collaborating with others to ensure product direction aligns with company mission; Working with engineering teams who have a sense of autonomy; Gathering a range of opinions from engineers and management; Working with our PeopleOps team closely; Working with the community
Communication Scope
Clearly communicate delivery timelines; Transparent communication
Process & Methodology
Setting milestones, Communicating delivery timelines, Removing impediments, Defining OKRs
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. This is a remote position and we're considering candidates in the US or Canada (EST working hours preferred). The Opportunity: We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Grafana Backend team. Our managers take an active role in creating a thriving environment for our engineers; be it through removing blockers and impediments, facilitating cross-team collaboration and understanding, or by aiding the team in helping themselves by constantly improving and refining their working practices, you are the glue to make our deliverables happen. You’ll be responsible for managing a team of distributed engineers working across a variety of systems and helping them to perform at their best. In Grafana Backend, our mission is to evolve the backend of the Grafana visualization product by architecting and delivering an exceptiona
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