Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend | United Kingdom | Remote

Grafana Labs
United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, United States, Canada
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 117,949 - 141,539 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Communication","Prioritization","Customer judgement","Decision-making","Team building"]

Lead two distributed Frontend Platform and Navigation squads to drive performance, delivery, and customer outcomes for Grafana’s open-source observability ecosystem. Own hiring, planning, discovery, and end-to-end delivery from roadmap to rollout and measurement, partnering with Product and Design. Set engineering direction for frontend foundations (DX, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability, multitenancy) and navigation/search experiences, while adopting AI and automation to improve productivity, quality, and operational excellence.

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Grafana Labs
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Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend | United Kingdom | Remote

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Job Summary

Lead two distributed Frontend Platform and Navigation squads to drive performance, delivery, and customer outcomes for Grafana’s open-source observability ecosystem. Own hiring, planning, discovery, and end-to-end delivery from roadmap to rollout and measurement, partnering with Product and Design. Set engineering direction for frontend foundations (DX, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability, multitenancy) and navigation/search experiences, while adopting AI and automation to improve productivity, quality, and operational excellence.
Location: United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, United States, Canada
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Be accountable for the performance of two distributed engineering squads by setting expectations, delegating effectively, coaching team members, and addressing performance gaps.
  • •Own hiring and team planning across both squads, aligning capacity and skills to product priorities and longer-term needs.
  • •Lead discovery with squads by engaging customers, community members, and internal users and using feedback and usage evidence to shape roadmaps and priorities.
  • •Partner with Product, Design, and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies, and make trade-offs between customer needs, long-term investments, and operational demands.
  • •Own delivery across discovery through rollout and measurement, improving squad planning and delivery and leading adoption of AI and automation in engineering and operational workflows.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 117,949 - 141,539 annually
Perks:RsusRemote WorkAnnual Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience managing senior engineers and developing technical leaders, with a focus on clear feedback and addressing performance gaps.
  • •Strong technical foundation in modern web/frontend systems to evaluate trade-offs and shape architecture and engineering-quality decisions.
  • •Track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results while managing delivery risks and operational demands.
  • •Strong product and customer judgment to connect engineering investments to user, developer, and business outcomes.
  • •Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work and leading teams to adopt them effectively.
Skills:LeadershipCoachingCommunicationPrioritizationCustomer judgementDecision-makingTeam building
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ReactTypeScriptAI coding assistantsOpenAIAnthropicGoogleAIAutomation

Company Brief

Grafana Labs
Develops open-source and commercial observability tools, including Grafana for metrics visualization, Loki for log aggregation, and Tempo for tracing, enabling organizations to monitor, analyze, and visualize system performance and telemetry data.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2014
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