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. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries.

Grafana is an open-source observability product and a platform that teams and plugin developers build on. As Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning their performance, delivery and customer outcomes. You’ll 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 synthesise research and feedback, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination, reporting and follow-through.
• 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 organisation, 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.
• Participate in the engineering management on-call rota, coordinate responses and drive improvements that reduce recurring disruption.

• 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 organisation.
• 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 Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 124,571 - EUR 149,485. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.

• 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect.