Engineering Manager - Observability | Sweden | Remote

Grafana Labs
Sweden
Workplace: RemoteFull timeSEK 878,000 - 1,098,000Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder management","Communication","Continuous improvement","Customer focus"]

Lead the Ingest team building configuration and deployment tooling for Grafana Cloud observability. Manage and grow a distributed group of backend and frontend engineers, partnering with go-to-market, product, and engineering leadership to evolve Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Drive delivery from ideation through post-launch, uphold high-quality engineering practices, and foster psychological safety in a fully remote, global environment.

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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
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Engineering Manager - Observability | Sweden | Remote

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Job Summary

Lead the Ingest team building configuration and deployment tooling for Grafana Cloud observability. Manage and grow a distributed group of backend and frontend engineers, partnering with go-to-market, product, and engineering leadership to evolve Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Drive delivery from ideation through post-launch, uphold high-quality engineering practices, and foster psychological safety in a fully remote, global environment.
Location: Sweden
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage and develop a team of backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting career growth.
  • •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 user experience.
  • •Guide delivery from early ideation through planning, execution, and post-launch to deliver consistent, high-quality results.
  • •Foster a psychologically safe, innovation-driven environment and work across team boundaries to solve customer problems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: SEK 878,000 - 1,098,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience in observability (especially OpenTelemetry) and/or building a central control plane managing fleets of collectors.
  • •Ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance to deliver high-quality results.
  • •Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability.
  • •Experience collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment with clear, empathetic communication.
  • •Comfort with AI-assisted tooling and incorporating AI-powered tools into a team’s workflow.
Experience:ObservabilityOpenTelemetryDistributed systemsKubernetesDeveloper tools
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementCommunicationContinuous improvementCustomer focus
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Grafana CloudGrafanaPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeOpenTelemetryKubernetesHelmFleet ManagementInstrumentation Hub

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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