Engineering Manager - Observability | Spain | Remote

Grafana Labs
Spain
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 94,000 - 117,000Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["People management","Stakeholder alignment","Communication","Psychological safety","Continuous improvement","Customer focus"]

Lead the Ingest team that powers Grafana Cloud’s observability collection journey. You’ll manage and grow a distributed group of backend and frontend engineers, partnering with go-to-market and product/engineering leadership to deliver Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Guide projects from ideation to post-launch, foster psychological safety and continuous improvement, and help ensure the platform delivers a seamless end-to-end user experience.

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Grafana Labs
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Engineering Manager - Observability | Spain | Remote

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Job Summary

Lead the Ingest team that powers Grafana Cloud’s observability collection journey. You’ll manage and grow a distributed group of backend and frontend engineers, partnering with go-to-market and product/engineering leadership to deliver Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Guide projects from ideation to post-launch, foster psychological safety and continuous improvement, and help ensure the platform delivers a seamless end-to-end user experience.
Location: Spain
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage and develop the Ingest team of backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and career conversations.
  • •Collaborate with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects succeed with their observability collection journey.
  • •Partner with product and engineering leadership to ensure Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub fit the end-to-end Grafana Cloud experience.
  • •Guide projects across the lifecycle from early ideation and planning through execution and post-launch delivery.
  • •Foster psychological safety and cross-boundary collaboration to solve customer problems and support continuous improvement.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 94,000 - 117,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkRsusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Strong engineering management experience leading and developing a team of backend/frontend engineers through feedback and career conversations.
  • •Experience in observability (especially OpenTelemetry) or building a central control plane to manage fleets of collectors.
  • •Comfort working with autonomy-driven teams and staying current on technical trends to support team challenges.
  • •Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance to deliver high-quality results.
  • •Solid understanding of distributed systems principles (scalability, fault tolerance, consistency) and building with customer impact in mind.
Experience:ObservabilityDistributed systemsOpen source
Skills:People managementStakeholder alignmentCommunicationPsychological safetyContinuous improvementCustomer focus
Tech Stack:ObservabilityOpenTelemetryPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeKubernetesHelmFleet ManagementInstrumentation HubAI coding assistantsOpenAIAnthropicGoogle

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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