Senior Engineering Manager (Grafana Frontend)

Join Grafana, an open-source observability platform, as a Senior Engineering Manager. Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, driving performance, delivery, and customer outcomes. Collaborate with Product and Design, improve team workflows, and leverage AI and automation. Enjoy a fully remote work environment, generous benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Practical experience using AI and automation in your own leadership work, and leading teams to adopt them effectively

USD 208,602 - 250,322

About Grafana Labs

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity

Responsibilities

• Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning their performance, delivery, and customer outcomes.
• Develop senior engineers, partner with Product and Design, and improve how teams work, including through AI and automation.
• 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.
• A track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results, managing delivery risks and operational demands
• Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders. You give clear feedback and address performance gaps directly and fairly
• An appreciation for open-source development and the judgement to balance Cloud-first delivery with the needs of customers, community members and internal teams
• Strong product and customer judgement, with the ability to connect engineering investments to user, developer and business outcomes
• 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

Requirements

• Clear, concise written communication and the ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation
• Experience with React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems
• Experience leading a developer platform team, including support for plugins or extensions
• Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product

Preferred

• Experience with navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management products
• Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations