Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as an Engineering Manager and lead a distributed team of engineers building and maintaining internal systems. You will foster a productive environment, coach and mentor engineers, contribute to design documents, and collaborate with various teams. The role requires experience managing engineering teams, strong technical understanding, and familiarity with web app development and various technologies. This full-time remote position is based in the United States and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

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)