Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Spain.

📋 Description

• Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation teams, taking ownership of performance, delivery, and customer outcomes.

• Establish expectations, delegate tasks, mentor, and develop team members while providing constructive feedback and addressing performance issues.

• Manage hiring and team planning for two geographically distributed engineering squads.

• Collaborate with customers, community members, and internal users to guide the development of roadmaps and set priorities.

• Work alongside Product, Design, and engineering leaders to prioritize tasks, resolve dependencies, and make informed trade-offs.

• Oversee the entire delivery process from discovery to rollout and measurement, setting key milestones and managing associated risks.

• Leverage AI to analyze research, inform roadmap and resource decisions, and enhance coordination and reporting.

• Enhance squad planning, decision-making, and delivery through the use of AI and automation.

• Define the engineering direction for frontend foundations, developer experience, accessibility, architecture, tooling, reliability, and multitenant capabilities.

• Set the engineering direction for navigation, search, and resource organization.

• Maintain engineering standards for quality, security, and operability, including validation of AI-assisted work.

• Drive improvements across Grafana and R&D to boost engineering productivity and achieve better business outcomes.

• Participate in the engineering management on-call rotation and implement enhancements that minimize recurring disruptions.

• Utilize Grafana’s AI capabilities for observability, incident investigation, and management.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience managing senior engineers, fostering healthy teams, and developing technical leaders.

• Strong technical background in modern web or frontend systems.

• Proven track record of transforming ambiguous, cross-team challenges into clear priorities and measurable outcomes.

• Strong product insight and customer judgment.

• Clear and concise written communication skills.

• Ability to work efficiently in a remote, globally distributed organization.

• Appreciation for open-source development practices.

• Hands-on experience with AI and automation in leadership roles and guiding teams in their adoption.

• Experience with React, TypeScript, or a similar large-scale frontend ecosystem (bonus).

• Leadership experience in developer platform teams, including plugins or extensions (bonus).

• Experience with navigation, search, information architecture, or resource management products (bonus).

• Background in multitenant SaaS or major platform migration (bonus).

• Experience with widely adopted open-source products (bonus).

🏝️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• Company-funded budget for modern AI coding assistants.

• Access to cutting-edge models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

• Fully remote with a global culture.

• Opportunities for career advancement.

• In-person onboarding experience.

• 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.

• Commitment to transparent communication and regular company-wide updates.

• Autonomy and support to deliver outstanding work.

• High-trust, low-ego workplace culture.

• Approachable and transparent leadership.