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Salary: EUR 94,000 - 117,000 / annual
Grafana Labs is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Observability Ingest team, a fully remote role based in Europe (Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, or UK). The Ingest team builds and maintains configuration and deployment tooling that bridges the gap between "I want observability" and "I have observability." The team owns Fleet Management (a cloud-based central control plane for managing hundreds of thousands of Observability Collectors), the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart (for deploying observability collection in Kubernetes environments), and the Instrumentation Hub (which combines Fleet Management and the Helm Chart for a seamless 1-command instrumentation experience).
You will manage and develop a team of backend and frontend engineers distributed across EMEA and North America, providing regular feedback and supporting career growth through meaningful conversations. You'll collaborate closely with go-to-market teams to ensure customers and prospects succeed with their observability collection journey, and work with product and engineering leadership to ensure Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub integrate seamlessly into the end-to-end Grafana Cloud user experience.
Key responsibilities include guiding the team through the full project lifecycle from ideation through planning, execution, and post-launch; fostering a psychologically safe environment where engineers can learn, experiment, and iterate quickly; and working across team boundaries to solve customer problems. You'll contribute to a remote-first, global company that invests heavily in developer productivity, including access to modern AI coding assistants (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) with company-funded usage budgets.
Grafana Labs is backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Customers include Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience in observability (especially OpenTelemetry) or building a central control plane that manages fleets of collectors is a strong advantage
- Comfortable working with engineering teams who have strong autonomy in technical and product-focused decision-making
- Keep up-to-date with latest technical trends while excelling at people management and relationship building
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment using clear, empathetic communication
- Ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance to deliver high-quality results
- Deeply customer-focused, grounding decisions in user needs and real-world impact
- Solid understanding of distributed systems principles including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability
- Comfortable with AI-assisted tooling; expected to be curious and have practical experience integrating AI-powered tools into team workflows
