Engineering Manager, Observability Dept

Details

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it.

Alloy is a distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. Its purpose is to collect, process, and export telemetry signals at scale. Alloy combines the strength of leading ecosystems like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, Pyroscope, and more. Alloy is an open source project that is maintained on Github.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the team of Alloy engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations. This is a remote team, distributed between EMEA and NASA (EST-only).
• Support the Alloy team on their path to closer collaboration with the OpenTelemetry collector community and address roadblocks.
• Collaborate closely with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects are successful with their Alloy journey.
• Work closely with product and engineering leadership to ensure Alloy fits seamlessly into the end-to-end user experience for Grafana Cloud products.
• Provide guidance throughout the project lifecycle from early ideation through planning, execution and post‑launch, guiding the team to deliver high‑quality results consistently.
• Foster a psychologically safe environment where engineers can learn, experiment and iterate quickly, encouraging innovation and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Work across team boundaries by contributing to projects outside your team’s scope and partnering with other functions to solve customer problems.

Requirements

• Domain knowledge in observability and OpenTelemetry sufficient to manage a team that will collaborate closely with the OpenTelemetry collector community.
• Comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in technical and product decision-making.
• Keep up-to-date with technical trends to maintain and enhance understanding of the challenges your teams face.
• Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment, using clear, empathetic communication to build trust and psychological safety.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance to deliver meaningful, high-quality results.
• Deep customer-focus, grounding decisions and technical choices in user needs and real-world impact.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability.

Comfort with AI-assisted tooling

Grafana Labs embraces AI and agentic development; candidates should be curious and comfortable using AI-powered tools and ideally have practical experience folding them into a team’s workflow. The company provides a funded usage budget for AI tools and mentions access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5.4, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro).

Compensation & Benefits

• Base compensation range for this role in Sweden: SEK 878,578 - SEK 1,054,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process.
• Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits (link provided in the original posting).
• 100% remote, global culture with defined career growth pathways and in-person onboarding. Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum (with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days).