Engineering Manager - Observability | Germany | Remote

Overview

Lead the distributed Ingest team building tooling that helps customers deploy and manage observability collection. Manage backend and frontend engineers while guiding products including Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub.

What you'll do

• Manage and develop backend and frontend engineers.
• Provide feedback and support career growth through career conversations.
• Collaborate with go-to-market teams on customer observability journeys.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership on end-to-end user experiences.
• Guide projects from ideation through planning, execution, and post-launch.
• Work across team boundaries to solve customer problems.
• Foster psychological safety, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

What you'll need

• Experience managing engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems principles.
• Ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and improve team performance.
• Ability to collaborate across time zones and cultures.
• Customer-focused decision-making grounded in user needs.
• Comfort with AI-assisted tooling.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability, especially OpenTelemetry.
• Experience building a central control plane for fleets of collectors.
• Practical experience integrating AI-powered tools into team workflows.

Details

• Remote position based in Germany.
• Base compensation: EUR 109,000–137,000 yearly.