Engineering Manager leading backend services, APIs, and distributed systems for Slice’s technology platform supporting local pizzerias. Building high - performing teams and improving customer and engineering outcomes.
About the role
- Senior Engineering Manager leading Grafana Frontend Platform and Navigation squads. Shaping open-source observability experiences, engineering productivity, and AI-assisted delivery at Grafana Labs.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads
- Own squad performance, delivery and customer outcomes
- Set expectations, delegate, coach and develop team members, provide feedback, address performance gaps, and build trust and accountability
- Own hiring and team planning across both squads
- Lead discovery with customers, community members and internal users
- Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities, resolve dependencies and make trade-offs
- Own delivery from discovery through rollout and measurement
- Use AI in management work to synthesise research, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination and reporting
- Improve squad planning, decision-making and delivery through AI and automation
- Set engineering direction for frontend foundations, developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability and multitenant capabilities
- Set engineering direction for navigation, search and resource organisation
- Uphold standards for quality, security and operability
- Lead improvements across Grafana and R&D that increase engineering productivity and business outcomes
- Participate in the engineering management on-call rota and drive improvements that reduce recurring disruption
- Use Grafana’s AI capabilities for observability, incident investigation and management
Requirements
- Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders
- Strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems
- Track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results
- Strong product and customer judgement
- Clear, concise written communication
- Ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation
- Appreciation for open-source development
- Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work, and leading teams to adopt them effectively
- 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
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants
- Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
- 100% remote, global culture
- Career growth pathways
- In-person onboarding
- 30 days of annual leave per annum
- 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
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