Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend
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Senior Engineering Manager leading Grafana’s Frontend Platform and Navigation squads. Improving open-source observability product delivery, architecture, developer experience, and AI-assisted engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning performance, delivery and customer outcomes
- Set expectations, delegate, coach and develop team members, provide feedback, address performance gaps, and build trust and accountability
- Own hiring and team planning across both 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 in management work to synthesize 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 organization, including AI-assisted discovery
- Uphold quality, security and operability standards, 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 and incident investigation, contributing to product feedback and roadmap decisions
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
- Experience with React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems (bonus)
- Experience leading a developer platform team, including support for plugins or extensions (bonus)
- Experience with navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management products (bonus)
- Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations (bonus)
- Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product (bonus)
Benefits:
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Company-funded AI coding assistant usage budget
- Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
- 100% remote, global culture
- Career growth pathways
- In-person onboarding
- 30 days 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
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