Engineering Manager

Grafana Labs

Engineering Manager leading Metrics Database teams to enhance Grafana Labs' observability platform. Driving team performance, technical decisions, and customer interactions in a fully remote environment.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSenior💰 €109,000 - €137,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The core focus of the role is people management, but you should have enough technical skills to manage a highly technical team and product.
Manage, hire, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.
You will act as project manager as well as working with product owners 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
Interacting with customers will occasionally occur, most of our customers are large companies using Mimir to monitor their operations
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.
Ideally you will have a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience from having worked as an engineer before moving into Management.
We develop in Go, we are Cloud Native and deploy on Kubernetes across all Cloud Service Providers using Helm and Jsonnet. Conceptual familiarity with Kubernetes and Helm is valuable, knowledge around distributed systems is appreciated.

Requirements

What you’ll need

An experienced people manager, capable of coaching senior engineers to grow into their careers by working on complex projects while supporting our operations
A motivated self-starter with a strong bias toward action and ownership, able to navigate ambiguity and drive work forward in complex problem spaces.
Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment, using clear, empathetic communication to build trust, connection, and psychological safety.
Experienced in guiding and supporting other engineers, leading initiatives or small teams, and collaborating effectively to drive projects to successful outcomes.
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, production-readiness, 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% Remote, Global Culture
Scaling Organization
Transparent Communication
Innovation-Driven
Open Source Roots
Empowered Teams
Career Growth Pathways
Approachable Leadership
Passionate People
In-Person onboarding
Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoKubernetesHelmJsonnetdistributed systemsscalabilityfault toleranceconsistencyproduction-readinessobservability

Soft Skills

people managementcoachingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcustomer-focusedempathytrust-buildingownershipnavigating ambiguity

Certifications

Computer Science degree