Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend

📍 Ireland

EUR 133,600-160,300 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

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Details

Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads. Grafana is an open-source observability product and platform used by teams and plugin developers. The Frontend group shapes the user experience across dashboards, visualisation, navigation, search and sharing, while also providing foundations for engineering teams and community contributors.

The role involves leading distributed engineering squads, developing senior engineers, partnering with Product and Design, improving delivery practices, and adopting AI and automation across engineering and operational workflows. Grafana uses cloud-first rollout and experimentation to deliver improvements to its open-source and Enterprise products.

Responsibilities

Be accountable for the performance of two distributed engineering squads by setting expectations, delegating effectively, coaching team members, providing feedback, addressing performance gaps and building a culture of trust and accountability.
Own hiring and team planning across both squads, aligning capacity and skills with product priorities and longer-term needs.
Lead discovery with customers, community members and internal users, using feedback, research and usage evidence to shape roadmaps and priorities.
Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies and make trade-offs between customer needs, long-term investments and operational demands.
Own delivery across both squads from discovery through rollout and measurement, including milestones, risk management and intervention when commitments are at risk.
Use AI to synthesise research and feedback, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination, reporting and follow-through.
Improve squad planning, decision-making and delivery, and lead the adoption of AI and automation across engineering and operational workflows.
Set engineering direction with senior engineers for frontend foundations, including developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability and multitenant capabilities.
Set engineering direction for navigation, search and resource organisation, including AI-assisted discovery.
Establish engineering standards for quality, security and operability, including evaluation and validation of AI-assisted work.
Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D that increase engineering productivity and improve business outcomes.
Participate in the engineering management on-call rota, coordinate responses and reduce recurring disruption.
Use Grafana's AI capabilities for observability, incident investigation and management, incorporating that experience into product feedback and roadmap decisions.

Requirements

Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders.
Ability to provide clear feedback and address performance gaps directly and fairly.
Strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems, with the ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and shape architecture and engineering-quality decisions.
Track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results while managing delivery risks and operational demands.
Strong product and customer judgement, connecting engineering investments to user, developer and business outcomes.
Clear, concise written communication and the ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation.
Appreciation for open-source development and the ability to balance cloud-first delivery with the needs of customers, community members and internal teams.
Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work and leading teams to adopt them effectively.

Bonus Qualifications

Experience with React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems.
Experience leading a developer platform team, including support for plugins or extensions.
Experience with navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management products.
Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations.
Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product.

Compensation and Benefits

Base compensation in Ireland: EUR 133,600–160,320 per year.
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) are included with all roles.
100% remote work in a global culture.
In-person onboarding.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
Career growth pathways, transparent communication, empowered teams and an open-source-focused culture.