Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend

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Senior Engineering Manager leading Grafana’s frontend platform and navigation squads. Improving the open-source observability platform through frontend architecture, AI automation, and team development.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning performance, delivery and customer outcomes
  • Set expectations, delegate, coach, develop team members, provide feedback and address performance gaps
  • Own hiring and team planning across two distributed engineering squads
  • Lead discovery with customers, community members and internal users to shape roadmaps and priorities
  • Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies and make trade-offs
  • Own delivery from discovery through rollout and measurement, setting milestones and managing risks
  • Use AI to synthesise research, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination and reporting
  • Improve squad planning, decision-making and delivery through AI and automation
  • Set engineering direction for frontend foundations, developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability and multitenant capabilities
  • Set engineering direction for navigation, search and resource organisation
  • Uphold engineering standards for quality, security and operability, including validation of AI-assisted work
  • Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D to increase engineering productivity and business outcomes
  • Participate in the engineering management on-call rota and drive improvements that reduce recurring disruption
  • Use Grafana’s AI capabilities for observability, incident investigation and management

Requirements:

  • Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders
  • Strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems
  • Track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results
  • Strong product and customer judgement
  • Clear, concise written communication
  • Ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation
  • Appreciation for open-source development
  • Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work and leading teams to adopt them
  • React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystem experience (bonus)
  • Developer platform team leadership experience, including plugins or extensions (bonus)
  • Navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management product experience (bonus)
  • Multitenant SaaS or major platform migration experience (bonus)
  • Widely adopted open-source product experience (bonus)

Benefits:

  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants
  • Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
  • 100% remote, global culture
  • Career growth pathways
  • In-person onboarding
  • 30 days of annual leave per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
  • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
  • Autonomy and support to ship great work
  • High-trust, low-ego culture
  • Approachable, transparent leadership