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 engineering strategy, delivery, AI, and automation.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads
- Own the performance, delivery, and customer outcomes of two distributed engineering squads
- 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
- Use AI to synthesise research, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination and reporting
- Improve planning, decision-making, and delivery; lead AI and automation adoption
- 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, operability, and AI-assisted work
- Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D that 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
- Applicants must be from the USA and in EST time zones
- React, TypeScript, or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystem experience is a bonus
- Experience leading a developer platform team is a bonus
- Experience with navigation, search, information architecture, or resource-management products is a bonus
- Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations is a bonus
- Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product is a bonus
Benefits:
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Company-funded AI coding assistant usage budget
- Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
- 100% remote work and global remote culture
- Career growth pathways
- In-person onboarding
- 30 days of annual leave per annum
- 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
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