Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend | Canada | Remote

Overview

Lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation engineering squads, owning team performance, delivery, technical direction and customer outcomes across Grafana's frontend ecosystem.

What you'll do

• Lead performance, coaching, development and accountability for two distributed engineering squads.
• Own hiring, team planning, capacity and skills alignment with product priorities.
• Shape roadmaps through customer, community and internal-user research and usage evidence.
• Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities and resolve dependencies.
• Own delivery from discovery through rollout, measurement and risk management.
• Set engineering direction for frontend foundations, navigation, search, accessibility, reliability and tooling.
• Lead AI and automation adoption and participate in the engineering-management on-call rota.

What you'll need

• Significant experience managing senior engineers and developing technical leaders.
• Strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems.
• Experience turning ambiguous cross-team problems into priorities and measurable results.
• Strong product and customer judgment.
• Clear written communication for remote, globally distributed work.
• Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work.

Nice to have

• Experience with React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems.
• Experience leading developer platform teams supporting plugins or extensions.
• Experience with navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management products.
• Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations.
• Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product.

Details

• Remote role for applicants in Canada in EST time zones.
• Base compensation: CAD 211,450–253,740 yearly.