Grafana Labs is hiring a
Senior Engineering Manager - Security Engineering in Spain

Summary

Grafana Labs is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead their Security Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have experience running a security engineering team, strong engineering background, excellent leadership and communication skills, and a DevOps mindset. They will be responsible for leading the team, defining and implementing engineering strategy, conducting regular 1:1s, collaborating with stakeholders, and being engaged in significant incidents.

Requirements

• Prior experience running a security engineering team
• You have a strong engineering 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-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 to maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face
• You approach security with a DevOps mindset. You prefer security by enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks
• You have familiarity with securing and operating on public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) providers, with Kubernetes, and with securing combined open-source software (OSS) and SaaS products
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator. You can articulate complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are adept at translating security problems to business impact

Responsibilities

• Lead our security engineering team covering a range of areas, including application security, 3rd party vulnerability management, cloud security, and internal tooling development
• Define, optimize, and implement the engineering strategy in concert with the security leadership team, ICs and stakeholders across the business
• Regular 1:1s, coaching and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Providing continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards
• Collaborating with our Engineering Leaders and other organization stakeholders to help define and influence wider product strategy, roadmaps and designs
• Be actively engaged with significant incidents, including preparation, simulation, response, and affected customer notification and communications
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming projects. Ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. Advise on how to break down projects into tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into security & leadership
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products. Experience in using observability tooling to solve security problems
• Experience working with OSS communities
• Experience securing large-scale distributed systems

Benefits

• Base compensation range: € 100,556 - € 120,667. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process
• Equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits