103K–129K GBP / year
Engineering Manager - Observability
Engineering managerRemote — UK
Published on 2026-09-21
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About this role
As the Engineering Manager for Observability, you will manage a team of engineers focused on enhancing Grafana Cloud's observability offerings. This role involves collaborating with product teams and ensuring high-quality results across various initiatives.
About the company
Grafana Labs builds open-source and commercial observability tools for metrics, logs, and traces, centered on Grafana dashboards. It helps teams monitor infrastructure and applications and investigate incidents.
The team
Observability department
Stack
KubernetesOpenTelemetryGrafanaPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscope
What you'll do
- Manage and develop backend and frontend engineers
- Collaborate with go-to-market teams for customer success
- Oversee project lifecycle from ideation to execution
- Foster a psychologically safe environment for learning
- Partner with other functions to solve customer problems
What we're looking for
- Experience in Observability or building a central control plane
- Ability to work with autonomous engineering teams
- Strong people management and relationship skills
- Understanding of distributed systems principles
- Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling
Nice to have
- Experience with OpenTelemetry
- Background in managing complex projects
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 30 days annual leave including company shutdown days
- Company-funded usage budget for AI coding tools