Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as an Engineering Manager and lead a team of distributed engineers building and maintaining internal systems. You will mentor engineers, contribute to design documents, collaborate with other teams, and help define product strategy. This full-time remote role (Canada only) requires experience managing engineering teams, familiarity with various technologies, and a strong understanding of modern web app development. The role involves regular 1:1s with team members, providing feedback, and working with product management and user experience teams. You will also collaborate with engineering leaders and the People Ops team. Compensation includes a competitive base salary and benefits.

Requirements

• You are comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision making, be it technical or product focussed
• 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 and have worked as a software engineer for at least 3 years before moving into management
• Experience with some or all the following technologies: JavaScript/NodeJS, Golang, Kubernetes, React or Vue, SQL Databases
• You have a solid understanding of modern web app development plus familiarity with API design, system architecture, Git, Linux, DevOps, and Observability and Monitoring

Responsibilities

• Have regular 1:1s with your team members to ensure they are motivated, happy, and engaged and meeting expectations
• Coach and mentor engineers and peers
• Provide continuous feedback to engineers to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards
• Contribute to and review design documents, product DNAs, and delivery plans
• Work with Product Management and User Experience to ensure features are well-defined and ready for development
• Advise your team members how to reduce the scope of and plan features into small, manageable tasks
• Coordinate with our User Experience team on how they can support your team's upcoming features
• Collaborate with our Engineering Leaders to help define and influence product strategy and roadmaps
• Work with our People Ops team to attract, retain, and hire talent
• You will act as project manager as well as working with product owners to ensure the roadmap is defined and up-to-date

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in API integration with external systems like Salesforce, Zendesk, marketing tools like Marketo, Billing & Credit Card processing systems would be a plus

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)