Engineering Manager - Observability | Germany | Remote

Grafana Labs
Germany
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 109,000 - 137,000Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder management","Communication","Psychological safety","Customer focus"]

Lead the Ingest team for Grafana Cloud’s composable observability platform, managing backend and frontend engineers who build Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Partner with go-to-market, product, and engineering leadership to ensure the end-to-end onboarding and deployment experience fits customer needs. Drive project execution, stakeholder alignment, and psychological safety in a distributed EMEA team.

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Grafana Labs
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Engineering Manager - Observability | Germany | Remote

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Job Summary

Lead the Ingest team for Grafana Cloud’s composable observability platform, managing backend and frontend engineers who build Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Partner with go-to-market, product, and engineering leadership to ensure the end-to-end onboarding and deployment experience fits customer needs. Drive project execution, stakeholder alignment, and psychological safety in a distributed EMEA team.
Location: Germany
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage and develop a remote team of backend and frontend engineers with regular feedback and career conversations.
  • •Collaborate with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects succeed with their observability collection journey.
  • •Work with product and engineering leadership to ensure Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub integrate seamlessly into the user experience.
  • •Guide delivery across the project lifecycle from ideation through planning, execution, and post-launch.
  • •Foster psychological safety and drive continuous improvement through innovation and quick iteration.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 109,000 - 137,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkRsusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience in observability (especially OpenTelemetry) or building a central control plane that manages fleets of collectors.
  • •Comfort managing and developing engineers through feedback, career conversations, and performance growth.
  • •Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and consistently deliver high-quality results.
  • •Solid understanding of distributed systems principles (scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability).
  • •Comfort working with AI-assisted tooling and integrating it into a team workflow.
Experience:ObservabilityDistributed systemsRemote collaboration
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementCommunicationPsychological safetyCustomer focus
Tech Stack:Grafana CloudPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeOpenTelemetryKubernetesHelmFleet ManagementInstrumentation HubAI coding assistantsDistributed systems

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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