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[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)SalaryGBP 103k–129k / yrDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished14 Oct 2026Apply before13 Nov 2026Listing views56Application actions4Application 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 seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Ingest team responsible for Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub capabilities. The manager will develop a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers while guiding delivery from ideation through launch and continuous improvement. The role requires strong knowledge of observability, distributed systems, and customer-focused platform development, with OpenTelemetry or collector fleet-management experience preferred. Success depends on aligning engineering, product, and go-to-market partners while maintaining an autonomous, psychologically safe remote-team culture. Candidates must be located in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, or the UK. ## 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 for complex, high-scale observability tooling and distributed control-plane products. It requires balancing team development, cross-functional alignment, customer outcomes, and sound technical judgment across a remote organization. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader UK market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate£116,000UK market range (per year)£100k–£145k0£159.50k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a UK base-compensation range of GBP 103,000–129,000, with a midpoint of GBP 116,000 per year. The annual cadence is inferred from the senior full-time engineering-management context and the stated base-pay magnitude. A reasonable estimated UK market range for an engineering manager leading observability and distributed-systems teams is GBP 100,000–145,000 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 translate those outcomes into a sequenced roadmap, establish clear technical ownership, and use regular reviews to adjust priorities based on customer feedback and operational signals. How do you support highly autonomous engineers without becoming a bottleneck? I set clear problem boundaries, desired outcomes, decision rights, and quality expectations, then give engineers room to choose implementation approaches. I stay engaged through lightweight design reviews, regular one-to-ones, and delivery checkpoints focused on risks, learning, and customer impact rather than controlling every technical decision. What distributed-systems concerns would you consider when building a control plane for a large fleet of collectors? I would assess scalability, tenancy isolation, authentication and authorization, configuration rollout safety, eventual consistency, fault tolerance, observability, and rollback mechanisms. I would also prioritize resilient behavior during control-plane outages so collectors can continue to operate safely using an appropriate cached configuration. How would you improve collaboration between engineering, product, and go-to-market teams? I would create a shared operating rhythm that includes roadmap context, customer evidence, launch criteria, and post-launch feedback. Clear written decision records and early involvement of go-to-market partners help ensure that product capabilities, positioning, documentation, and customer enablement remain aligned. How do you create psychological safety while maintaining high engineering standards? I model constructive feedback, invite dissent in planning and reviews, and treat incidents as learning opportunities rather than blame events. At the same time, I make expectations explicit through engineering standards, peer review, operational ownership, and transparent follow-through on commitments. 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 the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is GBP 103,000 – GBP 129,000. 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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