Engineering Manager – Observability

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland, +4 more countries.

📋 Description

• Lead and nurture a team of backend and frontend engineers.

• Offer ongoing feedback and facilitate career development through meaningful discussions.

• Work in conjunction with go-to-market teams to assist customers and prospects throughout their observability collection process.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership on initiatives such as Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub.

• Steer projects from conception through planning, execution, and post-launch evaluation.

• Promote an environment of psychological safety, innovation, experimentation, and continuous enhancement.

• Engage across team boundaries and collaborate with other departments to address customer challenges.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in observability, particularly with OpenTelemetry, or in developing a central control plane for managing fleets of collectors is highly beneficial.

• Comfortable working with self-sufficient engineering teams.

• Up-to-date knowledge of technical trends and the issues faced by engineering teams.

• Experience collaborating across various time zones and cultures in a completely remote setting.

• Proven ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and enhance team performance.

• Strong focus on customer needs.

• Solid grasp of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted tools; practical experience incorporating AI-driven tools into team workflows is preferred.

• Ability to manage both backend and frontend engineers while fostering their professional development.

🏝️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• Company-funded budget for AI coding assistant usage.

• Access to advanced models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

• Fully remote work environment with a global culture.

• Opportunities for career advancement.

• In-person onboarding experience.

• 30 days of annual leave each year.

• 3 annual leave days designated for Grafana Shutdown Days.

• Open communication and regular updates across the company.

• Autonomy and encouragement to innovate.

• Empowered teams built on trust.

• Accessible and transparent leadership.