Engineering Manager - Observability | Ireland | Remote

Grafana Labs
Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEU 117,000 - 137,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder management","Customer focus","Communication","Complexity management"]

Lead the Ingest team for an observability composable platform, managing distributed backend and frontend engineers and driving high-quality delivery across Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Partner with product and go-to-market to ensure customers succeed end-to-end with Grafana Cloud ingestion. Foster psychological safety and developer productivity while applying distributed systems and observability expertise to scale reliably.

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

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Job Summary

Lead the Ingest team for an observability composable platform, managing distributed backend and frontend engineers and driving high-quality delivery across Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Partner with product and go-to-market to ensure customers succeed end-to-end with Grafana Cloud ingestion. Foster psychological safety and developer productivity while applying distributed systems and observability expertise to scale reliably.
Location: Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage and develop a team of backend and frontend engineers, providing feedback and career conversations to support growth.
  • •Collaborate with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects are successful with their observability collection journey.
  • •Work with product and engineering leadership to ensure Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub fit into the end-to-end user experience.
  • •Guide the project lifecycle from early ideation through planning, execution, and post-launch delivery.
  • •Foster psychological safety, encourage learning and iteration, and partner across teams to solve customer problems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EU 117,000 - 137,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkRsus

Key Requirements

  • •Experience with observability (especially OpenTelemetry) or building a central control plane for 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.
  • •Comfort collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment with clear, empathetic communication.
  • •Comfort with AI-assisted tooling and experience incorporating AI-powered tools into a team workflow.
Experience:ObservabilityOpenTelemetryDistributed systemsKubernetes monitoring
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementCustomer focusCommunicationComplexity management
Tech Stack:Grafana CloudGrafanaPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeKubernetesHelmFleet ManagementInstrumentation HubOpenTelemetryOpenAIAnthropicGoogle

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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