Engineering Manager

This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the United States.

About the role:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Grafana Sharing squad. Our managers take an active role in creating a productive environment for our engineers; be it through removing blockers and impediments, facilitating cross-team collaboration and understanding, or by aiding the team in helping themselves by constantly improving and refining their working practices. You’ll be responsible for managing a team of 4 engineers working on our Grafana sharing feature set, helping them to perform at their best.

The Sharing squad is a full-stack squad part of the Frontend Team in Grafana. We are responsible for the experience of sharing your dashboards, generating reports, publishing snapshots and creating publicly shared dashboards. Our mission is to make the sharing experience simple yet powerful, enabling our users to collaborate with their peers in the Grafana ecosystem and get more value out of their dashboards.

What we seek:

• The core focus of the role is on people management but you should have enough technical skills/understanding of our stack to manage a highly technical team/product.
• You will act as project manager as well as working with cross-functional peers in Product management and Product Design to ensure the product roadmap is defined and up-to-date
• You have a strong technical background and are capable of engaging in technical conversations and challenging teams to arrive at strong technical decisions themselves
• You will be comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision making, be it technical or product focussed
• Some customer facing experience will help, as interacting with customers will occasionally occur
• While you’re great with people and adept at managing relationships, you still keep up-to-date with the latest technical trends and shifts in order to maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face.
• You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach.
• Ideally you will have a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience from having worked as an engineer before moving into Management.
• You’re experienced in Cloud-first delivery practices, promoting continuous automated testing and feature toggles as ways to mitigate risk.
• You’re familiar with being on-call and performing operations tasks like version checking and rollbacks.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Regular 1:1s to ensure your direct reports are motivated, happy and engaged
• Coaching and mentoring of your direct reports
• Providing continuous feedback to engineers to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features
• Perform project management tasks to ensure successful incremental delivery
• Regular collaboration with Product Management and Product Design peers
• Ensuring features are well-defined and ready for development
• Advising your reports on how to break down features into tasks
• Collaborating with our Engineering Leaders to help define and influence product strategy, roadmaps and technical designs
• Maintaining headcount by working with our People Ops team to attract and hire talent

What we use

• Our tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go, running on multiple Kubernetes clusters using MySQL as storage. The frontend layer is written in React/TypeScript and we use Jest and Cypress for our testing needs. As for pipelines, they are all being migrated to Github Actions.

In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is USD 173,304 - USD 207,965. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

About Grafana Labs: 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, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

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