Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs
Grafana Frontend
CA$165.9-199.1k
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Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
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Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$165.9-199.1k
+ Equity & Bonus (if applicable)
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower its users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.
Role
Who you are
- The core focus of the role is on people management but you should have enough technical skills/understanding of our stack to manage a highly technical team/product
- You have a strong technical background and are capable of engaging in technical conversations and challenging teams to arrive at strong technical decisions themselves
- You will be comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision making, be it technical or product focussed
- Some customer facing experience will help, as interacting with customers will occasionally occur
- While you’re great with people and adept at managing relationships, you still keep up-to-date with the latest technical trends and shifts in order to maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face
- You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach
- Ideally you will have a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience from having worked as an engineer before moving into Management
- You’re experienced in Cloud-first delivery practices, promoting continuous automated testing and feature toggles as ways to mitigate risk
- You’re familiar with being on-call and performing operations tasks like version checking and rollbacks
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Grafana Sharing squad
- Our managers take an active role in creating a productive environment for our engineers; be it through removing blockers and impediments, facilitating cross-team collaboration and understanding, or by aiding the team in helping themselves by constantly improving and refining their working practices
- You’ll be responsible for managing a team of 4 engineers working on our Grafana sharing feature set, helping them to perform at their best
- The Sharing squad is a full-stack squad part of the Frontend Team in Grafana
- We are responsible for the experience of sharing your dashboards, generating reports, publishing snapshots and creating publicly shared dashboards
- Our mission is to make the sharing experience simple yet powerful, enabling our users to collaborate with their peers in the Grafana ecosystem and get more value out of their dashboards
- You will act as project manager as well as working with cross-functional peers in Product management and Product Design to ensure the product roadmap is defined and up-to-date
- Regular 1:1s to ensure your direct reports are motivated, happy and engaged
- Coaching and mentoring of your direct reports
- Providing continuous feedback to engineers to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards
- Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features
- Perform project management tasks to ensure successful incremental delivery
- Regular collaboration with Product Management and Product Design peers
- Ensuring features are well-defined and ready for development
- Advising your reports on how to break down features into tasks
- Collaborating with our Engineering Leaders to help define and influence product strategy, roadmaps and technical designs
- Maintaining headcount by working with our People Ops team to attract and hire talent
- Our tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go, running on multiple Kubernetes clusters using MySQL as storage
- The frontend layer is written in React/TypeScript and we use Jest and Cypress for our testing needs
- As for pipelines, they are all being migrated to Github Actions
Our take
Observability plays a crucial role in software development, where dashboards are pivotal for monitoring the health of IT infrastructure across an organization. However, for developers, the frustration of spending unnecessary time navigating between different dashboards to find the latest information detracts from valuable programming time.
Grafana collaborates closely with its clients to create customizable observability platforms, striving to enhance efficiency in observability. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. Currently, FGrafana boasts over 21M active instances and approximately 10M users globally, with a customer base exceeding 2,000, including prominent names like Bloomberg, PJ Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal, and Sony.
While Grafana provides free plans with a simplified tool package, the Grafana Enterprise Stack offers customized observability solutions on a monthly subscription basis. The company's ongoing strategy revolves around continually improving Grafana to meet users' demands, enhancing functionality with each iteration, and fostering community engagement by enabling users to share their Grafana dashboards with the broader open-source community.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$270m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$240m
SERIES D
Total funding: $805.2m
Company benefits
- Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
- Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
- Retirement planning: There’s no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
- Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
- Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
- Choice of tech: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we’ll refresh them every three years
- Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
- Fond Perks: Grafanistas across the world receive access to Fond, a platform that provides access to pre-negotiated discounts on a wide variety of services including entertainment, food, and fitness
- Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
Company values
- Share openly and default to transparency
- Respectfully empowered
- OSS is in our DNA
- We keep our commitments
- Seek diverse perspectives
- Don't let perfect get in the way
- Help each other thrive
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Raj Dutt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently a Board Member at NSONE. Previously founded Voxel where they served as the CEO for 12 years. They also served as the Senior Vice President of Technology at Internap Network Services.
Torkel Ödegaard
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Mälardalen University with a Master's in Computer Science. Founder of Coding Instinct. Previously worked as a Consultant at H&M, Avega, and Ebay.
Anthony Wood
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Visa and Voxel as a Senior Systems Engineer. They also have Systems Engineering axperience at PalVision and iiNet.
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