Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs

• Experienced in people management, including conducting regular 1:1s, delivering candid feedback, and supporting career growth and performance conversations
• You are a leader who empowers engineers, focusing on setting clear direction, aligning on outcomes, and identifying risks early rather than providing task-level oversight
• Transparent and direct by default; you advocate clearly for your reports and proactively resolve ambiguity or conflicts, especially when priorities collide
• A strong communicator who thrives in a fully remote and globally distributed environment, comfortable collaborating asynchronously across time zones and cultures
• You take initiative and can move work forward in complex, systems-focused problem spaces, such as stateful systems, eventual consistency, and reconciliation loops
• Requirements:
• Minimum 2 years of experience managing software engineering teams
• Prior experience as an Individual Contributor (IC) in a related engineering role for at least 3 years
• A strong software engineering background, ideally including experience in backend systems (like Go), sufficient to credibly engage in technical design discussions and challenge the team toward strong decisions
• Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability
• Demonstrated ability to manage delivery across multiple concurrent projects, align stakeholders with competing priorities, and clearly communicate risks and timelines
• Comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making
• Deeply customer-focused, consistently grounding technical decisions in real-world user and business impact
• Comfort with AI-assisted tooling and an expectation that you are curious and comfortable integrating AI-powered tools into a team's workflow

Desirable

• Manage and grow a distributed team of engineers, conducting regular 1:1s, providing consistent feedback, and supporting individual performance and career development
• Partner with product management and engineering leadership to shape the Usage squad's roadmap, strategy, and OKRs, ensuring alignment with overall company mission and customer impact
• Guide the team through the full project lifecycle, from early technical design and scoping to delivery and post-launch iteration, ensuring high-quality and timely outcomes within the Usage domain (e.g., billing engine, cost management and billing app, reconciliation systems)
• Act as a project manager, facilitating collaboration with Product, DealOps, GTM, Pricing and Monetization, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads to remove blockers and ensure coordinated delivery across service boundaries
• Foster a high-trust, security-first team culture that embraces thoughtful AI-assisted development practices to enhance engineering workflows and eliminate toil
• Contribute to hiring and talent acquisition efforts, partnering with People Ops to attract and retain a diverse group of engineers