Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Backend | US | Remote

Grafana Backend Team##

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20 million users worldwide. We are scaling fast and staying true to our core values: 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 are paramount.

This is a remote position, open to candidates in the US or Canada (EST working hours preferred).

The Opportunity:

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Grafana Backend team. Our managers foster a supportive environment for engineers by removing impediments, facilitating collaboration, and refining working practices. You will manage a distributed team of engineers working on diverse systems, empowering them to perform at their best.

The Grafana Backend team's mission is to evolve the Grafana visualization product's backend, architecting and delivering a robust core platform to support high-demand services. We aim to enable users and agents to observe their infrastructure and software lifecycles efficiently. Our work primarily focuses on open-source Grafana, with close collaboration with customers of our commercial offerings. A key goal is to deliver the application platform that will enable multi-tenancy in Grafana to meet growing demand. We are dedicated to understanding developers, both internal and community members, and actively engage in research to enhance the developer experience. Close collaboration with Product, Docs, and Customer Experience teams is integral to this role.

What You'll Be Doing:

• People Management: Focus on supporting and developing engineers, fostering a positive team environment.
• Technical Leadership: Leverage a strong software engineering background to engage in technical discussions, guide architectural decisions, and understand the Go-based backend stack.
• Delivery & Execution: Collaborate with the team to set milestones, communicate timelines, and remove impediments to ensure successful delivery.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to define and maintain the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with company goals and defining OKRs.
• Quality Focus: Prioritize quality while encouraging rapid feedback cycles and experimentation.
• Autonomy & Empowerment: Support engineering teams in their autonomous decision-making processes, both technical and product-related.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest technical trends to better understand and support your team's challenges.

We support modern AI coding assistants to enhance developer productivity, providing a company-funded budget for tools and iteration. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development, including faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups, always maintaining strong code review and quality standards. You'll have access to frontier models.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Supportive Management: Conduct regular 1:1s to ensure direct reports are motivated, happy, and engaged.
• Coaching & Mentoring: Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers.
• Progress over Perfection: Offer continuous feedback to engineers to maximize their value while maintaining high standards.
• Diverse Perspectives: Encourage a range of opinions from engineers and management in feature definition, design documents, and open discussions. Actively work with our PeopleOps team to reach out to URMs and diversify voices.
• Say:Do Ratio: Ensure features are well-defined and ready for development, and drive their successful delivery.
• Empowerment: Encourage and nurture new initiatives and contributions from team members.
• Community Engagement: Regularly engage with the open-source community, embodying transparency and openness.

Compensation & Rewards:

• Base Compensation (US): USD 208,602 - USD 250,322. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset.
• Benefits: Include equity, bonus (if applicable), and other comprehensive benefits.
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs): All roles include RSUs, providing ownership in Grafana Labs' success.
• Compensation ranges are country-specific. Your recruiter will discuss your market's defined pay range and benefits.

Why You'll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture: Collaborate with talent worldwide in a remote-first environment.
• Scaling Organization: Contribute to meaningful work in a high-growth setting.
• Transparent Communication: Participate in open decision-making and regular company updates.
• Innovation-Driven: Enjoy autonomy and support to innovate and ship great work.
• Open Source Roots: Work within a community-driven culture.
• Empowered Teams: Experience a high-trust, low-ego culture focused on outcomes.
• Career Growth Pathways: Access defined opportunities for professional development.
• Approachable Leadership: Engage with transparent, visible, and human leadership.
• Passionate People: Join a team of smart, supportive individuals who care deeply about their work.
• In-Person Onboarding: Participate in immersive onboarding with new colleagues.
• Work-Life Balance: Enjoy 30 days of annual leave, including 3 company-reserved shutdown days. (We comply with local legislation.)

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Grafana Labs is committed to recruiting, training, compensating, and promoting individuals without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic that makes us unique. We believe diversity and equality are foundational to our success.

Grafana Labs may use AI tools in recruitment to assist in matching CV information to job postings. The recruitment team will manually review all CVs.

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