Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations. Built on open source and open standards, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI. Customers include Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce. The company is 100% remote with team members across 40+ countries, backed by investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital.

As Senior Engineering Manager for Grafana Frontend, you will lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning their performance, delivery, and customer outcomes. Frontend Platform enables teams to build reliable, high-quality experiences; Navigation helps users find and organize resources and move confidently through Grafana. You will develop senior engineers, partner with Product and Design, and improve how teams work, including through AI and automation.

• Be accountable for the performance of two distributed engineering squads: set clear expectations, delegate effectively, coach and develop each team member, give timely feedback, address performance gaps, and build a culture of trust and accountability.
• Own hiring and team planning across both squads, aligning team capacity and skills with product priorities and longer-term needs.
• Lead discovery with your squads: engage directly with customers, community members, and internal users, combine their feedback with research and usage evidence, and use those insights to shape roadmaps and priorities.
• Partner with Product, Design, and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies, and make trade-offs between customer needs, long-term investments, and operational demands.
• Own delivery across both squads from discovery through rollout and measurement: set milestones, surface risks early, and intervene when commitments are at risk.
• Use AI regularly in your management work to synthesize research and feedback, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination, reporting, and follow-through.
• Improve how the squads plan, make decisions, and deliver. Lead the adoption of AI and automation across engineering and operational workflows, evaluating their impact on delivery speed, quality, and time spent on repetitive work.
• Set engineering direction with senior engineers for the frontend foundations owned by your squads, including developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability, and multitenant capabilities.
• Set engineering direction for navigation, search, and resource organization, including where AI-assisted discovery can help users find what they need.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for quality, security, and operability, including how teams evaluate and validate AI-assisted work.
• Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D that increase engineering productivity and improve business outcomes.
• Participate in the engineering management on-call rota, coordinate responses, and drive improvements that reduce recurring disruption.
• Regularly use Grafana's AI capabilities for observability, incident investigation, and management, bringing that experience into product feedback and roadmap decisions.

• Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams, and developing technical leaders.
• A strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems, enabling you to evaluate technical trade-offs and shape architectural and engineering-quality decisions with senior engineers.
• A track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results, managing delivery risks and operational demands.
• Strong product and customer judgement, with the ability to connect engineering investments to user, developer, and business outcomes.
• Clear, concise written communication and the ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organization.
• An appreciation for open-source development and the judgement to balance Cloud-first delivery with the needs of customers, community members, and internal teams.
• Practical experience using AI and automation in your own leadership work, and leading teams to adopt them effectively.

• Experience with React, TypeScript, or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems.
• Experience leading a developer platform team, including support for plugins or extensions.
• Experience with navigation, search, information architecture, or resource-management products.
• Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations.
• Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product.

In the United Kingdom, the base compensation range for this role is GBP 117,949 - GBP 141,539. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company with a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days. The company is an equal opportunity employer.