Engineering Manager - Observability | UK | Remote

Overview

Lead the distributed Ingest engineering team building Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub for Grafana Cloud's observability platform.

What you'll do

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

What you'll need

• Experience managing engineering teams and elevating team performance.
• Understanding of distributed systems, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability.
• Ability to manage complexity and align stakeholders.
• Customer-focused approach to technical and product decisions.
• Ability to collaborate across time zones and cultures in remote environments.
• Comfort with AI-assisted tooling and agentic development.

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 open to candidates in the UK and specified European countries.
• UK base compensation: GBP 103,000–129,000 yearly.