Engineering Manager – Observability | UK | Remote

Overview

As Engineering Manager for the Ingest team, you lead a distributed group of backend and frontend engineers to deliver Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. You partner with product, engineering, and GTM to ensure a seamless observability experience for Grafana Cloud customers. You foster a high-performing, psychologically safe culture that emphasizes quality, experimentation, and customer impact. This remote role offers a chance to shape how customers collect and act on observability data at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• RSUs
• remote-first, global culture
• 30 days annual leave plus Grafana Shutdown Days
• onboarding and growth opportunities
• open source culture
• transparent communication

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a remote engineering team across EMEA and NASA
• Collaborate with go-to-market to ensure successful observability data collection journeys
• Align Fleet Management, Kubernetes Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub with end-to-end user experience
• Guide the project lifecycle from ideation through planning, execution and post-launch
• Foster psychological safety and a culture of continuous improvement
• Collaborate across teams to solve customer problems beyond the immediate scope

Key requirements

• Experience in Observability (OpenTelemetry) or building a central control plane managing fleets of collectors
• Comfort leading autonomous engineering teams, with strong decision-making
• Strong communication skills across time zones and cultures
• Ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance
• Customer-focused mindset influencing technical decisions with real-world impact
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and observability
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling and willingness to integrate it into workflows

• collaboration
• clear communication
• empathy and psychological safety
• Observability / OpenTelemetry
• Fleet management and central control planes
• Kubernetes and Helm Chart deployment

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