Engineering Manager - Observability | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs
United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 103,000 - 129,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["People management","Stakeholder alignment","Clear communication","Psychological safety","Customer focus"]

Manage and develop a remote Ingest team of backend and frontend engineers building Grafana Cloud’s observability onboarding experience. Own team execution for Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub that delivers 1-command instrumentation. Partner with go-to-market and collaborate with product and engineering leadership to ensure the platform fits end-to-end user journeys, fostering psychological safety and high-quality delivery across time zones.

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Grafana Labs
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Engineering Manager - Observability | UK | Remote

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Job Summary

Manage and develop a remote Ingest team of backend and frontend engineers building Grafana Cloud’s observability onboarding experience. Own team execution for Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub that delivers 1-command instrumentation. Partner with go-to-market and collaborate with product and engineering leadership to ensure the platform fits end-to-end user journeys, fostering psychological safety and high-quality delivery across time zones.
Location: United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland
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, providing feedback and career conversations to support growth.
  • •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 fit into end-to-end Grafana Cloud user experiences.
  • •Guide projects from ideation and planning through execution and post-launch, delivering consistently high-quality results.
  • •Foster psychological safety and cross-team collaboration, encouraging fast iteration, continuous improvement, and innovation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 103,000 - 129,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:RsusRemote WorkPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience in observability (especially OpenTelemetry) or building a central control plane that manages 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 working with remote engineering teams and collaborating clearly across time zones and cultures.
  • •Experience with AI-assisted tooling and curiosity about integrating AI into team workflows.
Experience:ObservabilityOpenTelemetryDistributed systems
Skills:People managementStakeholder alignmentClear communicationPsychological safetyCustomer focus
Tech Stack:Grafana CloudPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeOpenTelemetryKubernetesHelmInstrumentation HubFleet Management

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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