Job description
Engineering Manager, Observability Dept | Germany | Remote
Company Overview
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack.
Job Summary
The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to manage and develop the team of Alloy engineers, fostering a psychologically safe environment and collaborating closely with the OpenTelemetry collector community.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and develop the team of Alloy engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth.
- Support the Alloy team on their path to closer collaboration with the OpenTelemetry collector community.
- Collaborate closely with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects are successful with their Alloy journey.
- Work closely with product and engineering leadership to ensure Alloy fits seamlessly into the end-to-end user experience.
- Provide guidance throughout the project lifecycle from early ideation through execution and post-launch.
- Foster a psychologically safe environment and encourage continuous improvement.
- Work across team boundaries by contributing to projects outside your team’s scope.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Domain knowledge in observability and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience managing engineering teams with a strong sense of autonomy.
- Ability to balance people management with staying up-to-date on technical trends.
- Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance.
- Deeply customer-focused.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems principles (scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, observability).
- Comfortable using AI-powered tools and folding them into a team’s workflow.
Location
Germany (Remote)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Base compensation range (Germany): EUR 109,709 - EUR 131,651.
- Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable), and 30 days annual leave (including 3 shutdown days).
Equal Opportunity Statement
We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique.
