[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Grafana Labs logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2021/11/42a3c42246467ec231dd876e92b63452.jpeg)](https://jobicy.com/company/grafana-labs.md)[Grafana Labs](https://jobicy.com/company/grafana-labs.md) # Engineering Manager – Observability | Spain | Remote Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/grafana-labs.md)ShareRemote from[UK](https://jobicy.com/job-region/uk.md), [Spain](https://jobicy.com/job-region/spain.md), [Germany](https://jobicy.com/job-region/germany.md)+2 more, [Sweden](https://jobicy.com/job-region/sweden.md), [Ireland](https://jobicy.com/job-region/ireland.md)SalaryEUR 94k–117k / yrDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished14 Oct 2026Apply before13 Nov 2026Listing views46Application actions1Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Grafana Labs is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Ingest team responsible for Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub products. The manager will develop a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers while guiding delivery from ideation through post-launch. The role requires strong knowledge of observability, distributed systems, customer-focused product delivery, and cross-functional collaboration with product and go-to-market teams. Candidates must be eligible to work remotely from Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, or the UK. The position emphasizes autonomous leadership, psychological safety, and pragmatic use of AI-assisted development tools. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior people-and-technical leadership role spanning distributed systems, observability products, customer outcomes, and a remote team across time zones. Success requires balancing engineering quality, stakeholder alignment, delivery execution, and team development with substantial autonomy. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader EU market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate€105,500EU market range (per year)€90k–€125k0€137.50k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a Spain-specific base compensation range of EUR 94,000 to EUR 117,000, with a midpoint of EUR 105,500. The yearly cadence is inferred from the full-time Engineering Manager context and the stated compensation scale rather than explicitly stated. An estimated Spain-market range for a senior observability engineering manager is EUR 90,000 to EUR 125,000 annually; this is an AI estimate, not verified salary research. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would make trade-offs visible through a shared roadmap, define measurable outcomes for each initiative, and reserve capacity for operational health and technical debt. Regular alignment with product, support, and go-to-market would ensure priorities reflect real adoption and usability needs. Describe how you lead an autonomous engineering team without becoming a delivery bottleneck. I establish clear outcomes, decision boundaries, and quality expectations, then give engineers ownership of implementation choices. I use lightweight planning, regular one-to-ones, design reviews for high-impact decisions, and outcome-focused retrospectives. My role is to remove obstacles, improve context, coach decision-making, and intervene only when risks exceed the team’s agreed boundaries. What distributed-systems concerns would you consider when managing a control plane for a large fleet of observability collectors? I would focus on scalability, availability, secure identity and configuration distribution, eventual consistency behavior, rate limiting, and safe rollout mechanisms. I would also ensure strong observability of the control plane itself, including fleet health, configuration convergence, error rates, and customer-visible latency. Failure modes and rollback paths should be designed before broad deployment. How would you improve collaboration between engineering and go-to-market teams for an observability product? I would create structured feedback loops that turn customer questions, adoption blockers, and implementation patterns into actionable product insights. Engineering should provide clear technical context on capabilities and constraints, while go-to-market should bring evidence from prospects and customers. Shared success metrics, such as activation time and successful instrumentation rates, help both groups align around outcomes. How do you use AI-assisted development tools responsibly within an engineering organization? I encourage teams to use AI for acceleration in prototyping, test creation, documentation, refactoring, and incident follow-ups while maintaining human accountability. Clear security guidance, code review standards, testing, and provenance expectations are essential. I would measure whether the tools improve developer flow and quality rather than adopting them solely for novelty. Opportunity details ## About this role. Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at [grafana.com](http://grafana.com) and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/) and [X](https://twitter.com/grafana). We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. ### This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only. The opportunity: Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack. The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it. What is the Ingest team? We build and maintain the configuration and deployment tooling that bridges the gap between “I want observability” and “I have observability,”. To achieve this the team owns [Fleet Management](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/fleet-management/introduction/), the [Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/kubernetes-monitoring/configuration/helm-chart-config/helm-chart/), and the [Instrumentation Hub](https://grafana.com/blog/instrumentation-hub-a-guided-scalable-way-to-roll-out-your-observability-coverage-without-losing-control/). Fleet Management is the cloud-based central control plane our customers use to manage hundreds of thousands of Observability Collectors in the wild. The Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart is used to effectively deploy Observability Collection in Kubernetes based environments. The Instrumentation Hub seamlessly combines Fleet Management and the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart to achieve a magic 1-command instrumentation experience. What You’ll Be Doing: * Manage and develop the team of backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations. This is a remote team, distributed between EMEA and NASA. * Collaborate closely with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects are successful with their Observability collection journey. * Work closely with product and engineering leadership to ensure Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub fit seamlessly into the end-to-end user experience for Grafana cloud products. * Provide guidance throughout the project lifecycle from early ideation through planning, execution and post‑launch guiding the team to deliver high‑quality results consistently. * Foster a psychologically safe environment where engineers can learn, experiment and iterate quickly, encouraging innovation and a culture of continuous improvement. * Work across team boundaries by contributing to projects outside your team’s scope and partnering with other functions to solve customer problems. As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software. We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards. You’ll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. ### What Makes You a Great Fit: * Experience in either of these areas is a strong advantage: Observability (especially OpenTelemetry), or building a central control plane that manages fleets of collectors. * You will be comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, be it technical or product focused. * 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. * Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment, using clear, empathetic communication to build trust, connection, and psychological safety. * Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and elevate team performance to deliver meaningful, high-quality results. * Deeply customer-focused, consistently grounding decisions and technical choices in user needs and real-world impact. * Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability. * Comfort with AI-assisted tooling. We embrace AI and agentic development so we expect you to be curious and comfortable using AI-powered tools and ideally have practical experience folding them into a team’s workflow. Compensation & Rewards: In Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 94,000 – EUR 117,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs’ success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally. *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. Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs: * 100% Remote, Global Culture – As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose. * Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment. * Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates. * Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. * Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. * Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics. * Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career. * Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human. * Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. * In-Person onboarding – We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it. * Balance is Key – We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable. Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow. Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. 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