This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants located in Canadian time zones (EST + CST only at this time). 

Staff Backend Engineer - Application Core Services, Stacks

The Opportunity: 

Application Core Services (AppCore) is a group within Platform, in the Foundations department. Foundations produces the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) and partners closely with our Cloud, Enterprise, and Grafana teams. Our team develops the essential systems driving Grafana's business operations. We utilize the grafana.com platform to engineer bespoke integrations and solutions that unify the diverse technical ecosystem of a modern software enterprise.

The team owns important domain areas that help keep both our customer workflows and internal business processes running smoothly. AppCore is made up of multiple squads, each focused on one or more of these domains. Our work includes maintaining the billing engine responsible for customer usage calculation, automating provisioning after a customer signs a contract, integrating with cloud marketplaces such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, and building and maintaining the user portal our customers rely on to manage their accounts.

This is a team working at the intersection of product, platform, and business operations. The systems we build are critical to how Grafana scales. We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex workflow and systems problems, improving reliability and developer experience, and building software that directly supports both customers and internal stakeholders.

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 unique perspective to the software. Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities and collaborate across teams beyond their immediate scope.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The AppCore Stacks squad owns the systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. A stack is the customer-facing Grafana Cloud environment that connects an organization to Grafana and the backend services it uses, including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, plugins, dashboards, data sources, and stack-level configuration.

Our work sits at the intersection of product, platform, and operations. We build the control-plane services and workflows that keep stack state aligned across grafana.com, Stack State Service (SSS), Hosted Grafana, cloud regions, and the underlying Grafana Cloud infrastructure. When this domain works well, customers get reliable stack creation, safe configuration rollout, predictable migrations, and fewer manual operational interventions.

• Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems, including the SSS backend, to track desired stack state, detect and repair drift across stack templates, grafana.com state, Hosted Grafana, and actual customer stack configuration
• Collaborate across SSS, grafana.com, and deployment configurations to ensure stack lifecycle workflows remain reliable, observable, and resilient
• Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity (e.g., aiming for single PR regional SSS deployment) and contributing to the Stack Config Reconciliation project
• Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, Grafana versions, release channels, and stack-level configuration
• Support new region and cluster rollouts, including the operational paths required to bring stacks online safely in new Grafana Cloud regions
• Improve incident response and recovery paths for stack misalignment, reconciliation failures, plugin rollout issues, and Hosted Grafana integration failures
• Partner with Product, Hosted Grafana, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads on customer-impacting stack lifecycle work
• Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, OnCall improvements, and long-term simplification of stack operations
• You will help own the production behavior of the systems you build. That includes improving runbooks, dashboards, alerts, reconciliation safety, rollout controls, and recovery procedures. You should be comfortable debugging across service boundaries and making careful changes in systems that affect customer stacks

Of course, there is an on-call component to this role and one that we take seriously. As a company, we hire globally (remote-first) to ensure our on-call remains healthy and aligned to approximately 12 daylight hours per day. You will work closely with counterparts in other regions to provide balanced coverage and shared ownership.

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 frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).

What Makes You a Great Fit:

At Grafana, we actively embrace AI-assisted and agentic development practices, integrating these technologies into both our engineering workflows and the systems we deliver. We encourage our engineers to thoughtfully leverage AI tools to enhance every stage of the lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, documentation, and operations. We also look for strategic opportunities to embed agentic capabilities within our services to eliminate toil, bolster reliability, and ensure that complex customer workflows remain resilient and safe.

We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer who thrives on building production systems where correctness, scalability, and operational clarity are paramount. As a remote-first organization, you should be comfortable collaborating asynchronously across time zones and taking full ownership of the critical systems powering Grafana Cloud. Our team is small and operates with a high degree of independence; you will be expected to lead major projects, coordinate across service boundaries, and help define the technical direction for our domain.

You will be particularly successful in this role if you enjoy solving challenges related to stateful systems, eventual consistency, and reconciliation loops. We value engineers who can take ambiguous lifecycle requirements and transform them into explicit, modular solutions. You should be adept at breaking down complex systems work into safe, iterative increments while clearly communicating technical tradeoffs to both internal stakeholders and adjacent product teams.

Some things you might be expected to do could include:

• Writing efficient, readable, and easy to maintain code
• Designing new microservices or systems
• Collaborating with teammates and other departments to reach consensus on proposed solutions
• Coordinating with product and UX when needed
• Responding to customer requests and feedback
• When ready, participating in our follow-the-sun OnCall rotation
• Participating in team decisions, such as roadmap planning and prioritization

Requirements:

• You have at least 1 year of fully remote work experience
• You have worked on a big SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g. scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
• Have professional experience with Golang and be willing to work across both backend service and application code
• Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
• Have some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• You write clean, robust, well-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain
• Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment
• Can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively
• You are willing to work across teams. Your work has to be aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders. You make your plans transparent, bring stakeholders on board, and are open to feedback and suggestions
• Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)
• Experience participating in blameless incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
• Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-state systems
• Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling
• Experience working on SaaS provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems
• Experience with incident response involving configuration drift, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch

Compensation & Rewards:

In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 186,368 - CAD 223,642. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

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.

This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants located in USA time zones (EST + CST only at this time). 

Staff Backend Engineer - Application Core Services, Stacks

The Opportunity: 

Application Core Services (AppCore) is a group within Platform, in the Foundations department. Foundations produces the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) and partners closely with our Cloud, Enterprise, and Grafana teams. Our team develops the essential systems driving Grafana's business operations. We utilize the grafana.com platform to engineer bespoke integrations and solutions that unify the diverse technical ecosystem of a modern software enterprise.

The team owns important domain areas that help keep both our customer workflows and internal business processes running smoothly. AppCore is made up of multiple squads, each focused on one or more of these domains. Our work includes maintaining the billing engine responsible for customer usage calculation, automating provisioning after a customer signs a contract, integrating with cloud marketplaces such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, and building and maintaining the user portal our customers rely on to manage their accounts.

This is a team working at the intersection of product, platform, and business operations. The systems we build are critical to how Grafana scales. We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex workflow and systems problems, improving reliability and developer experience, and building software that directly supports both customers and internal stakeholders.

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 unique perspective to the software. Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities and collaborate across teams beyond their immediate scope.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The AppCore Stacks squad owns the systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. A stack is the customer-facing Grafana Cloud environment that connects an organization to Grafana and the backend services it uses, including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, plugins, dashboards, data sources, and stack-level configuration.

Our work sits at the intersection of product, platform, and operations. We build the control-plane services and workflows that keep stack state aligned across grafana.com, Stack State Service (SSS), Hosted Grafana, cloud regions, and the underlying Grafana Cloud infrastructure. When this domain works well, customers get reliable stack creation, safe configuration rollout, predictable migrations, and fewer manual operational interventions.

• Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems, including the SSS backend, to track desired stack state, detect and repair drift across stack templates, grafana.com state, Hosted Grafana, and actual customer stack configuration
• Collaborate across SSS, grafana.com, and deployment configurations to ensure stack lifecycle workflows remain reliable, observable, and resilient
• Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity (e.g., aiming for single PR regional SSS deployment) and contributing to the Stack Config Reconciliation project
• Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, Grafana versions, release channels, and stack-level configuration
• Support new region and cluster rollouts, including the operational paths required to bring stacks online safely in new Grafana Cloud regions
• Improve incident response and recovery paths for stack misalignment, reconciliation failures, plugin rollout issues, and Hosted Grafana integration failures
• Partner with Product, Hosted Grafana, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads on customer-impacting stack lifecycle work
• Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, OnCall improvements, and long-term simplification of stack operations
• You will help own the production behavior of the systems you build. That includes improving runbooks, dashboards, alerts, reconciliation safety, rollout controls, and recovery procedures. You should be comfortable debugging across service boundaries and making careful changes in systems that affect customer stacks

Of course, there is an on-call component to this role and one that we take seriously. As a company, we hire globally (remote-first) to ensure our on-call remains healthy and aligned to approximately 12 daylight hours per day. You will work closely with counterparts in other regions to provide balanced coverage and shared ownership.

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 frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).

What Makes You a Great Fit:

At Grafana, we actively embrace AI-assisted and agentic development practices, integrating these technologies into both our engineering workflows and the systems we deliver. We encourage our engineers to thoughtfully leverage AI tools to enhance every stage of the lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, documentation, and operations. We also look for strategic opportunities to embed agentic capabilities within our services to eliminate toil, bolster reliability, and ensure that complex customer workflows remain resilient and safe.

We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer who thrives on building production systems where correctness, scalability, and operational clarity are paramount. As a remote-first organization, you should be comfortable collaborating asynchronously across time zones and taking full ownership of the critical systems powering Grafana Cloud. Our team is small and operates with a high degree of independence; you will be expected to lead major projects, coordinate across service boundaries, and help define the technical direction for our domain.

You will be particularly successful in this role if you enjoy solving challenges related to stateful systems, eventual consistency, and reconciliation loops. We value engineers who can take ambiguous lifecycle requirements and transform them into explicit, modular solutions. You should be adept at breaking down complex systems work into safe, iterative increments while clearly communicating technical tradeoffs to both internal stakeholders and adjacent product teams.

Some things you might be expected to do could include:

• Writing efficient, readable, and easy to maintain code
• Designing new microservices or systems
• Collaborating with teammates and other departments to reach consensus on proposed solutions
• Coordinating with product and UX when needed
• Responding to customer requests and feedback
• When ready, participating in our follow-the-sun OnCall rotation
• Participating in team decisions, such as roadmap planning and prioritization

Requirements:

• You have at least 1 year of fully remote work experience
• You have worked on a big SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g. scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
• Have professional experience with Golang and be willing to work across both backend service and application code
• Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
• Have some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• You write clean, robust, well-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain
• Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment
• Can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively
• You are willing to work across teams. Your work has to be aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders. You make your plans transparent, bring stakeholders on board, and are open to feedback and suggestions
• Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)
• Experience participating in blameless incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
• Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-state systems
• Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling
• Experience working on SaaS provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems
• Experience with incident response involving configuration drift, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch

Compensation & Rewards:

In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is USD 174,986 - USD 209,983. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Metal

The Opportunity: 

About our Platform:
Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it efficiently and effectively.

The Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) delivered by the Platform group provides application engineers with the tools, systems and Kubernetes clusters they need to build, deploy and run their workloads. 

We are hiring a manager as part of the creation of a new Platform “Metal” squad. This squad will be responsible for building and provisioning resources including storage, networking and Kubernetes clusters in new environments, starting with our own physical hardware. They will provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources, outside public Cloud, to the rest of Engineering.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Hire, manage, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to define goals that move the squad forward and align with broader business objectives.
• 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.

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 frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Demonstrable experience building and managing on-prem/bare metal environments
• 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.

Bonus Points For:

• Running Kubernetes and/or Ceph in production environments 
• Experience dealing with colo facilities and associated vendors
• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously. At Grafana Labs, “OSS is in our DNA”

In Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 120,000 - EUR 151,000. 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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Metal

The Opportunity: 

About our Platform:
Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it efficiently and effectively.

The Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) delivered by the Platform group provides application engineers with the tools, systems and Kubernetes clusters they need to build, deploy and run their workloads. 

We are hiring a manager as part of the creation of a new Platform “Metal” squad. This squad will be responsible for building and provisioning resources including storage, networking and Kubernetes clusters in new environments, starting with our own physical hardware. They will provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources, outside public Cloud, to the rest of Engineering.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Hire, manage, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to define goals that move the squad forward and align with broader business objectives.
• 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.

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 frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Demonstrable experience building and managing on-prem/bare metal environments
• 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.

Bonus Points For:

• Running Kubernetes and/or Ceph in production environments 
• Experience dealing with colo facilities and associated vendors
• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously. At Grafana Labs, “OSS is in our DNA”

In the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is GBP 117,000 - GBP 147,000. 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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering

About the team 

We are a technical Corporate Engineering team, ensuring stakeholders across Grafana have the technology they need to excel. This covers the historical way of managing corporate systems, including IT Operations, Internal Helpdesk, Corporate Security, and service development. This also covers the future of corporate systems, where developers and non-technical employees alike need to build automations, ship internal applications, and deploy background agentic workloads. Our job is to provide the core systems and platforms to optimize our current and future stacks and enable all employees to own their own workflows. 

We can build any tool we need, while knowing when to buy to improve velocity. We support a highly autonomous, technical, 100% remote, across the globe, cloud-native organization. To support our growth and ambitious vision, we embrace agile principles and values, share openly, default to action, and have an OSS-first mindset. We believe in high-velocity but sustainable expectations and timeframes, giving people the room to do great work, and keep our souls intact.

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a leader to curate and drive our Corporate Engineering team. You will be responsible for finishing the optimization of our current IT operations stack, and be the driver of our internal AI native strategy. You want to push decision-making to wherever the right information is, rather than centralizing approvals, and you can build the processes and systems to enable all teams to experiment and own their own tools. You embody DevOps principles, and long lead or approval times fill you with dread. You see shadow IT as a signal that we have a gap, rather than something to be controlled. 

You will lead a team that manages the operation and security of traditional corporate IT systems, help desk queues, and employee hardware, but also provides tools and platforms for other teams’ to effectively operate in. Your team is also significantly responsible for the operational and security strategy for internal AI usage, agentic workloads, and general automation at Grafana. You will guide your team building and delivering internal platforms that automate typical IT work and enable our employees to do their best work seamlessly. You must have significant engineering acumen as this is a highly technology-driven role.

This is a high-impact opportunity to define what IT and corporate systems looks like in the AI age at a technical, everything-as-code company. You will have a fully staffed team and significant autonomy to achieve objectives. If you read the Phoenix Project and Seat at the Table/Art of Business Value and it struck a chord then you are the next engineering leader we are looking for. 

What You’ll Be Going:

• Lead the team covering a range of existing areas, including corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues, and internal tooling development.
• Handle corporate security initiatives, deploying security and compliance checks in an employee-enabling way (guardrails and paved roads) in their daily workflows.
• Help define our wider internal AI rollout, enablement, and security strategy across all teams, not just developers. 
• Manage the relationships, negotiation, and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
• Make all work and costs visible, both internally to the team and enable stakeholder teams to understand their processes and work. Use this visibility to continuously improve processes.
• Understand and, where possible, leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges. Open-source what we come up with for the good of other Grafana users. 
• Act as a leader within the larger Foundations department, including all other platform, business application, and security teams. 
• Conduct regular 1:1s, coaching, and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Provide continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards.
• Participate in team activities. Be a participant in all work queues. Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming projects, ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. You will be part of your team’s and department's on-call rotation. 

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience running a software engineering operations 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 understand at least one cloud provider well, and have a working knowledge of k8s.
• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems commonly used by modern tech companies, including the gamut of operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android), SSO (Okta, 1Password), workplace productivity tools (Google Workspace, Office) MDM (Jamf, Intune, FleetDM, Kolide), EDR, DLP, typical corporate SaaS platforms (Salesforce, Zendesk), AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Google, etc), and managing employee laptops and devices.
• You approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset, preferring enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks. You have experience providing internal platforms to other teams and see IT as a provider of tools, platforms, and automation, rather than a ticket-taking service provider.
• Knowledge of the current AI state of the art, and strong ideas on how to leverage effectively and safely across the enterprise in a way that enables experimentation rather than locking the organization into yesterday’s technology. 
• You are deeply curious about software, security, and the current and future states of technology. You keep your teams ahead of the curve.  
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator who can articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, and guiding via influence.
• Work Eastern-time oriented hours. Grafana Labs is a global company, and we need to maximize overlap time with our EMEA peers. 

Bonus Points:

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into leadership. Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers, and kubernetes expertise is a great plus. 
• Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for all core personas (non-development, code, agentic automation).
• A ready plan for how to secure AII 
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products, and experience using observability tooling to solve IT or security problems.
• Experience working with OSS communities.

In Sweden, the Base compensation range for this role is SEK 949,000 - SEK 1,246,000. 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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering

About the team 

We are a technical Corporate Engineering team, ensuring stakeholders across Grafana have the technology they need to excel. This covers the historical way of managing corporate systems, including IT Operations, Internal Helpdesk, Corporate Security, and service development. This also covers the future of corporate systems, where developers and non-technical employees alike need to build automations, ship internal applications, and deploy background agentic workloads. Our job is to provide the core systems and platforms to optimize our current and future stacks and enable all employees to own their own workflows. 

We can build any tool we need, while knowing when to buy to improve velocity. We support a highly autonomous, technical, 100% remote, across the globe, cloud-native organization. To support our growth and ambitious vision, we embrace agile principles and values, share openly, default to action, and have an OSS-first mindset. We believe in high-velocity but sustainable expectations and timeframes, giving people the room to do great work, and keep our souls intact.

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a leader to curate and drive our Corporate Engineering team. You will be responsible for finishing the optimization of our current IT operations stack, and be the driver of our internal AI native strategy. You want to push decision-making to wherever the right information is, rather than centralizing approvals, and you can build the processes and systems to enable all teams to experiment and own their own tools. You embody DevOps principles, and long lead or approval times fill you with dread. You see shadow IT as a signal that we have a gap, rather than something to be controlled. 

You will lead a team that manages the operation and security of traditional corporate IT systems, help desk queues, and employee hardware, but also provides tools and platforms for other teams’ to effectively operate in. Your team is also significantly responsible for the operational and security strategy for internal AI usage, agentic workloads, and general automation at Grafana. You will guide your team building and delivering internal platforms that automate typical IT work and enable our employees to do their best work seamlessly. You must have significant engineering acumen as this is a highly technology-driven role.

This is a high-impact opportunity to define what IT and corporate systems looks like in the AI age at a technical, everything-as-code company. You will have a fully staffed team and significant autonomy to achieve objectives. If you read the Phoenix Project and Seat at the Table/Art of Business Value and it struck a chord then you are the next engineering leader we are looking for. 

What You’ll Be Going:

• Lead the team covering a range of existing areas, including corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues, and internal tooling development.
• Handle corporate security initiatives, deploying security and compliance checks in an employee-enabling way (guardrails and paved roads) in their daily workflows.
• Help define our wider internal AI rollout, enablement, and security strategy across all teams, not just developers. 
• Manage the relationships, negotiation, and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
• Make all work and costs visible, both internally to the team and enable stakeholder teams to understand their processes and work. Use this visibility to continuously improve processes.
• Understand and, where possible, leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges. Open-source what we come up with for the good of other Grafana users. 
• Act as a leader within the larger Foundations department, including all other platform, business application, and security teams. 
• Conduct regular 1:1s, coaching, and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Provide continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards.
• Participate in team activities. Be a participant in all work queues. Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming projects, ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. You will be part of your team’s and department's on-call rotation. 

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience running a software engineering operations 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 understand at least one cloud provider well, and have a working knowledge of k8s.
• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems commonly used by modern tech companies, including the gamut of operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android), SSO (Okta, 1Password), workplace productivity tools (Google Workspace, Office) MDM (Jamf, Intune, FleetDM, Kolide), EDR, DLP, typical corporate SaaS platforms (Salesforce, Zendesk), AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Google, etc), and managing employee laptops and devices.
• You approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset, preferring enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks. You have experience providing internal platforms to other teams and see IT as a provider of tools, platforms, and automation, rather than a ticket-taking service provider.
• Knowledge of the current AI state of the art, and strong ideas on how to leverage effectively and safely across the enterprise in a way that enables experimentation rather than locking the organization into yesterday’s technology. 
• You are deeply curious about software, security, and the current and future states of technology. You keep your teams ahead of the curve.  
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator who can articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, and guiding via influence.
• Work Eastern-time oriented hours. Grafana Labs is a global company, and we need to maximize overlap time with our EMEA peers. 

Bonus Points:

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into leadership. Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers, and kubernetes expertise is a great plus. 
• Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for all core personas (non-development, code, agentic automation).
• A ready plan for how to secure AII 
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products, and experience using observability tooling to solve IT or security problems.
• Experience working with OSS communities.

In Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 106,000 - EUR 133,000. 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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Metal

The Opportunity: 

About our Platform:
Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it efficiently and effectively.

The Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) delivered by the Platform group provides application engineers with the tools, systems and Kubernetes clusters they need to build, deploy and run their workloads. 

We are hiring a manager as part of the creation of a new Platform “Metal” squad. This squad will be responsible for building and provisioning resources including storage, networking and Kubernetes clusters in new environments, starting with our own physical hardware. They will provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources, outside public Cloud, to the rest of Engineering.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Hire, manage, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to define goals that move the squad forward and align with broader business objectives.
• 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.

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 frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Demonstrable experience building and managing on-prem/bare metal environments
• 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.

Bonus Points For:

• Running Kubernetes and/or Ceph in production environments 
• Experience dealing with colo facilities and associated vendors
• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously. At Grafana Labs, “OSS is in our DNA”

In Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 106,000 - EUR 133,000. 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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Metal

The Opportunity: 

About our Platform:
Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it efficiently and effectively.

The Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) delivered by the Platform group provides application engineers with the tools, systems and Kubernetes clusters they need to build, deploy and run their workloads. 

We are hiring a manager as part of the creation of a new Platform “Metal” squad. This squad will be responsible for building and provisioning resources including storage, networking and Kubernetes clusters in new environments, starting with our own physical hardware. They will provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources, outside public Cloud, to the rest of Engineering.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Hire, manage, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to define goals that move the squad forward and align with broader business objectives.
• 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.

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 frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Demonstrable experience building and managing on-prem/bare metal environments
• 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.

Bonus Points For:

• Running Kubernetes and/or Ceph in production environments 
• Experience dealing with colo facilities and associated vendors
• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously. At Grafana Labs, “OSS is in our DNA”

In Sweden, the Base compensation range for this role is SEK 949,000 - SEK 1,246,000. 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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in the US or Canada EST timezone, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering

About the team 

We are a technical Corporate Engineering team, ensuring stakeholders across Grafana have the technology they need to excel. This covers the historical way of managing corporate systems, including IT Operations, Internal Helpdesk, Corporate Security, and service development. This also covers the future of corporate systems, where developers and non-technical employees alike need to build automations, ship internal applications, and deploy background agentic workloads. Our job is to provide the core systems and platforms to optimize our current and future stacks and enable all employees to own their own workflows. 

We can build any tool we need, while knowing when to buy to improve velocity. We support a highly autonomous, technical, 100% remote, across the globe, cloud-native organization. To support our growth and ambitious vision, we embrace agile principles and values, share openly, default to action, and have an OSS-first mindset. We believe in high-velocity but sustainable expectations and timeframes, giving people the room to do great work, and keep our souls intact.

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a leader to curate and drive our Corporate Engineering team. You will be responsible for finishing the optimization of our current IT operations stack, and be the driver of our internal AI native strategy. You want to push decision-making to wherever the right information is, rather than centralizing approvals, and you can build the processes and systems to enable all teams to experiment and own their own tools. You embody DevOps principles, and long lead or approval times fill you with dread. You see shadow IT as a signal that we have a gap, rather than something to be controlled. 

You will lead a team that manages the operation and security of traditional corporate IT systems, help desk queues, and employee hardware, but also provides tools and platforms for other teams’ to effectively operate in. Your team is also significantly responsible for the operational and security strategy for internal AI usage, agentic workloads, and general automation at Grafana. You will guide your team building and delivering internal platforms that automate typical IT work and enable our employees to do their best work seamlessly. You must have significant engineering acumen as this is a highly technology-driven role.

This is a high-impact opportunity to define what IT and corporate systems looks like in the AI age at a technical, everything-as-code company. You will have a fully staffed team and significant autonomy to achieve objectives. If you read the Phoenix Project and Seat at the Table/Art of Business Value and it struck a chord then you are the next engineering leader we are looking for. 

What You’ll Be Going:

• Lead the team covering a range of existing areas, including corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues, and internal tooling development.
• Handle corporate security initiatives, deploying security and compliance checks in an employee-enabling way (guardrails and paved roads) in their daily workflows.
• Help define our wider internal AI rollout, enablement, and security strategy across all teams, not just developers. 
• Manage the relationships, negotiation, and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
• Make all work and costs visible, both internally to the team and enable stakeholder teams to understand their processes and work. Use this visibility to continuously improve processes.
• Understand and, where possible, leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges. Open-source what we come up with for the good of other Grafana users. 
• Act as a leader within the larger Foundations department, including all other platform, business application, and security teams. 
• Conduct regular 1:1s, coaching, and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Provide continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards.
• Participate in team activities. Be a participant in all work queues. Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming projects, ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. You will be part of your team’s and department's on-call rotation. 

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience running a software engineering operations 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 understand at least one cloud provider well, and have a working knowledge of k8s.
• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems commonly used by modern tech companies, including the gamut of operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android), SSO (Okta, 1Password), workplace productivity tools (Google Workspace, Office) MDM (Jamf, Intune, FleetDM, Kolide), EDR, DLP, typical corporate SaaS platforms (Salesforce, Zendesk), AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Google, etc), and managing employee laptops and devices.
• You approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset, preferring enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks. You have experience providing internal platforms to other teams and see IT as a provider of tools, platforms, and automation, rather than a ticket-taking service provider.
• Knowledge of the current AI state of the art, and strong ideas on how to leverage effectively and safely across the enterprise in a way that enables experimentation rather than locking the organization into yesterday’s technology. 
• You are deeply curious about software, security, and the current and future states of technology. You keep your teams ahead of the curve.  
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator who can articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, and guiding via influence.
• Work Eastern-time oriented hours. Grafana Labs is a global company, and we need to maximize overlap time with our EMEA peers. 

Bonus Points:

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into leadership. Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers, and kubernetes expertise is a great plus. 
• Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for all core personas (non-development, code, agentic automation).
• A ready plan for how to secure AII 
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products, and experience using observability tooling to solve IT or security problems.
• Experience working with OSS communities.

Compensation & Rewards:

In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 211,000 - CAD 264,000.  Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

*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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Metal

The Opportunity: 

About our Platform:
Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it efficiently and effectively.

The Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) delivered by the Platform group provides application engineers with the tools, systems and Kubernetes clusters they need to build, deploy and run their workloads. 

We are hiring a manager as part of the creation of a new Platform “Metal” squad. This squad will be responsible for building and provisioning resources including storage, networking and Kubernetes clusters in new environments, starting with our own physical hardware. They will provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources, outside public Cloud, to the rest of Engineering.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Hire, manage, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to define goals that move the squad forward and align with broader business objectives.
• 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.

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 frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Demonstrable experience building and managing on-prem/bare metal environments
• 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.

Bonus Points For:

• Running Kubernetes and/or Ceph in production environments 
• Experience dealing with colo facilities and associated vendors
• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously. At Grafana Labs, “OSS is in our DNA”

In Ireland, the Base compensation range for this role is EU 133,000 - EU 167,000. 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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in the US or Canada EST timezone, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering

About the team 

We are a technical Corporate Engineering team, ensuring stakeholders across Grafana have the technology they need to excel. This covers the historical way of managing corporate systems, including IT Operations, Internal Helpdesk, Corporate Security, and service development. This also covers the future of corporate systems, where developers and non-technical employees alike need to build automations, ship internal applications, and deploy background agentic workloads. Our job is to provide the core systems and platforms to optimize our current and future stacks and enable all employees to own their own workflows. 

We can build any tool we need, while knowing when to buy to improve velocity. We support a highly autonomous, technical, 100% remote, across the globe, cloud-native organization. To support our growth and ambitious vision, we embrace agile principles and values, share openly, default to action, and have an OSS-first mindset. We believe in high-velocity but sustainable expectations and timeframes, giving people the room to do great work, and keep our souls intact.

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a leader to curate and drive our Corporate Engineering team. You will be responsible for finishing the optimization of our current IT operations stack, and be the driver of our internal AI native strategy. You want to push decision-making to wherever the right information is, rather than centralizing approvals, and you can build the processes and systems to enable all teams to experiment and own their own tools. You embody DevOps principles, and long lead or approval times fill you with dread. You see shadow IT as a signal that we have a gap, rather than something to be controlled. 

You will lead a team that manages the operation and security of traditional corporate IT systems, help desk queues, and employee hardware, but also provides tools and platforms for other teams’ to effectively operate in. Your team is also significantly responsible for the operational and security strategy for internal AI usage, agentic workloads, and general automation at Grafana. You will guide your team building and delivering internal platforms that automate typical IT work and enable our employees to do their best work seamlessly. You must have significant engineering acumen as this is a highly technology-driven role.

This is a high-impact opportunity to define what IT and corporate systems looks like in the AI age at a technical, everything-as-code company. You will have a fully staffed team and significant autonomy to achieve objectives. If you read the Phoenix Project and Seat at the Table/Art of Business Value and it struck a chord then you are the next engineering leader we are looking for. 

What You’ll Be Going:

• Lead the team covering a range of existing areas, including corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues, and internal tooling development.
• Handle corporate security initiatives, deploying security and compliance checks in an employee-enabling way (guardrails and paved roads) in their daily workflows.
• Help define our wider internal AI rollout, enablement, and security strategy across all teams, not just developers. 
• Manage the relationships, negotiation, and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
• Make all work and costs visible, both internally to the team and enable stakeholder teams to understand their processes and work. Use this visibility to continuously improve processes.
• Understand and, where possible, leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges. Open-source what we come up with for the good of other Grafana users. 
• Act as a leader within the larger Foundations department, including all other platform, business application, and security teams. 
• Conduct regular 1:1s, coaching, and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Provide continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards.
• Participate in team activities. Be a participant in all work queues. Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming projects, ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. You will be part of your team’s and department's on-call rotation. 

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience running a software engineering operations 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 understand at least one cloud provider well, and have a working knowledge of k8s.
• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems commonly used by modern tech companies, including the gamut of operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android), SSO (Okta, 1Password), workplace productivity tools (Google Workspace, Office) MDM (Jamf, Intune, FleetDM, Kolide), EDR, DLP, typical corporate SaaS platforms (Salesforce, Zendesk), AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Google, etc), and managing employee laptops and devices.
• You approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset, preferring enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks. You have experience providing internal platforms to other teams and see IT as a provider of tools, platforms, and automation, rather than a ticket-taking service provider.
• Knowledge of the current AI state of the art, and strong ideas on how to leverage effectively and safely across the enterprise in a way that enables experimentation rather than locking the organization into yesterday’s technology. 
• You are deeply curious about software, security, and the current and future states of technology. You keep your teams ahead of the curve.  
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator who can articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, and guiding via influence.
• Work Eastern-time oriented hours. Grafana Labs is a global company, and we need to maximize overlap time with our EMEA peers. 

Bonus Points:

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into leadership. Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers, and kubernetes expertise is a great plus. 
• Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for all core personas (non-development, code, agentic automation).
• A ready plan for how to secure AII 
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products, and experience using observability tooling to solve IT or security problems.
• Experience working with OSS communities.

Compensation & Rewards:

In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is USD 208,000 - USD 260,000.  Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

*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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering

About the team 

We are a technical Corporate Engineering team, ensuring stakeholders across Grafana have the technology they need to excel. This covers the historical way of managing corporate systems, including IT Operations, Internal Helpdesk, Corporate Security, and service development. This also covers the future of corporate systems, where developers and non-technical employees alike need to build automations, ship internal applications, and deploy background agentic workloads. Our job is to provide the core systems and platforms to optimize our current and future stacks and enable all employees to own their own workflows. 

We can build any tool we need, while knowing when to buy to improve velocity. We support a highly autonomous, technical, 100% remote, across the globe, cloud-native organization. To support our growth and ambitious vision, we embrace agile principles and values, share openly, default to action, and have an OSS-first mindset. We believe in high-velocity but sustainable expectations and timeframes, giving people the room to do great work, and keep our souls intact.

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a leader to curate and drive our Corporate Engineering team. You will be responsible for finishing the optimization of our current IT operations stack, and be the driver of our internal AI native strategy. You want to push decision-making to wherever the right information is, rather than centralizing approvals, and you can build the processes and systems to enable all teams to experiment and own their own tools. You embody DevOps principles, and long lead or approval times fill you with dread. You see shadow IT as a signal that we have a gap, rather than something to be controlled. 

You will lead a team that manages the operation and security of traditional corporate IT systems, help desk queues, and employee hardware, but also provides tools and platforms for other teams’ to effectively operate in. Your team is also significantly responsible for the operational and security strategy for internal AI usage, agentic workloads, and general automation at Grafana. You will guide your team building and delivering internal platforms that automate typical IT work and enable our employees to do their best work seamlessly. You must have significant engineering acumen as this is a highly technology-driven role.

This is a high-impact opportunity to define what IT and corporate systems looks like in the AI age at a technical, everything-as-code company. You will have a fully staffed team and significant autonomy to achieve objectives. If you read the Phoenix Project and Seat at the Table/Art of Business Value and it struck a chord then you are the next engineering leader we are looking for. 

What You’ll Be Going:

• Lead the team covering a range of existing areas, including corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues, and internal tooling development.
• Handle corporate security initiatives, deploying security and compliance checks in an employee-enabling way (guardrails and paved roads) in their daily workflows.
• Help define our wider internal AI rollout, enablement, and security strategy across all teams, not just developers. 
• Manage the relationships, negotiation, and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
• Make all work and costs visible, both internally to the team and enable stakeholder teams to understand their processes and work. Use this visibility to continuously improve processes.
• Understand and, where possible, leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges. Open-source what we come up with for the good of other Grafana users. 
• Act as a leader within the larger Foundations department, including all other platform, business application, and security teams. 
• Conduct regular 1:1s, coaching, and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Provide continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards.
• Participate in team activities. Be a participant in all work queues. Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming projects, ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. You will be part of your team’s and department's on-call rotation. 

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience running a software engineering operations 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 understand at least one cloud provider well, and have a working knowledge of k8s.
• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems commonly used by modern tech companies, including the gamut of operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android), SSO (Okta, 1Password), workplace productivity tools (Google Workspace, Office) MDM (Jamf, Intune, FleetDM, Kolide), EDR, DLP, typical corporate SaaS platforms (Salesforce, Zendesk), AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Google, etc), and managing employee laptops and devices.
• You approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset, preferring enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks. You have experience providing internal platforms to other teams and see IT as a provider of tools, platforms, and automation, rather than a ticket-taking service provider.
• Knowledge of the current AI state of the art, and strong ideas on how to leverage effectively and safely across the enterprise in a way that enables experimentation rather than locking the organization into yesterday’s technology. 
• You are deeply curious about software, security, and the current and future states of technology. You keep your teams ahead of the curve.  
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator who can articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, and guiding via influence.
• Work Eastern-time oriented hours. Grafana Labs is a global company, and we need to maximize overlap time with our EMEA peers. 

Bonus Points:

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into leadership. Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers, and kubernetes expertise is a great plus. 
• Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for all core personas (non-development, code, agentic automation).
• A ready plan for how to secure AII 
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products, and experience using observability tooling to solve IT or security problems.
• Experience working with OSS communities.

In the UK, the Base compensation range for this role is GBP 117,000 - GBP 147,000. 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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering

About the team 

We are a technical Corporate Engineering team, ensuring stakeholders across Grafana have the technology they need to excel. This covers the historical way of managing corporate systems, including IT Operations, Internal Helpdesk, Corporate Security, and service development. This also covers the future of corporate systems, where developers and non-technical employees alike need to build automations, ship internal applications, and deploy background agentic workloads. Our job is to provide the core systems and platforms to optimize our current and future stacks and enable all employees to own their own workflows. 

We can build any tool we need, while knowing when to buy to improve velocity. We support a highly autonomous, technical, 100% remote, across the globe, cloud-native organization. To support our growth and ambitious vision, we embrace agile principles and values, share openly, default to action, and have an OSS-first mindset. We believe in high-velocity but sustainable expectations and timeframes, giving people the room to do great work, and keep our souls intact.

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a leader to curate and drive our Corporate Engineering team. You will be responsible for finishing the optimization of our current IT operations stack, and be the driver of our internal AI native strategy. You want to push decision-making to wherever the right information is, rather than centralizing approvals, and you can build the processes and systems to enable all teams to experiment and own their own tools. You embody DevOps principles, and long lead or approval times fill you with dread. You see shadow IT as a signal that we have a gap, rather than something to be controlled. 

You will lead a team that manages the operation and security of traditional corporate IT systems, help desk queues, and employee hardware, but also provides tools and platforms for other teams’ to effectively operate in. Your team is also significantly responsible for the operational and security strategy for internal AI usage, agentic workloads, and general automation at Grafana. You will guide your team building and delivering internal platforms that automate typical IT work and enable our employees to do their best work seamlessly. You must have significant engineering acumen as this is a highly technology-driven role.

This is a high-impact opportunity to define what IT and corporate systems looks like in the AI age at a technical, everything-as-code company. You will have a fully staffed team and significant autonomy to achieve objectives. If you read the Phoenix Project and Seat at the Table/Art of Business Value and it struck a chord then you are the next engineering leader we are looking for. 

What You’ll Be Going:

• Lead the team covering a range of existing areas, including corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues, and internal tooling development.
• Handle corporate security initiatives, deploying security and compliance checks in an employee-enabling way (guardrails and paved roads) in their daily workflows.
• Help define our wider internal AI rollout, enablement, and security strategy across all teams, not just developers. 
• Manage the relationships, negotiation, and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
• Make all work and costs visible, both internally to the team and enable stakeholder teams to understand their processes and work. Use this visibility to continuously improve processes.
• Understand and, where possible, leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges. Open-source what we come up with for the good of other Grafana users. 
• Act as a leader within the larger Foundations department, including all other platform, business application, and security teams. 
• Conduct regular 1:1s, coaching, and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Provide continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards.
• Participate in team activities. Be a participant in all work queues. Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming projects, ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. You will be part of your team’s and department's on-call rotation. 

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience running a software engineering operations 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 understand at least one cloud provider well, and have a working knowledge of k8s.
• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems commonly used by modern tech companies, including the gamut of operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android), SSO (Okta, 1Password), workplace productivity tools (Google Workspace, Office) MDM (Jamf, Intune, FleetDM, Kolide), EDR, DLP, typical corporate SaaS platforms (Salesforce, Zendesk), AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Google, etc), and managing employee laptops and devices.
• You approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset, preferring enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks. You have experience providing internal platforms to other teams and see IT as a provider of tools, platforms, and automation, rather than a ticket-taking service provider.
• Knowledge of the current AI state of the art, and strong ideas on how to leverage effectively and safely across the enterprise in a way that enables experimentation rather than locking the organization into yesterday’s technology. 
• You are deeply curious about software, security, and the current and future states of technology. You keep your teams ahead of the curve.  
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator who can articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, and guiding via influence.
• Work Eastern-time oriented hours. Grafana Labs is a global company, and we need to maximize overlap time with our EMEA peers. 

Bonus Points:

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into leadership. Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers, and kubernetes expertise is a great plus. 
• Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for all core personas (non-development, code, agentic automation).
• A ready plan for how to secure AII 
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products, and experience using observability tooling to solve IT or security problems.
• Experience working with OSS communities.

In Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 120,000 - EUR 151,000. 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.

This is a remote position. We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.

Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering

About the team 

We are a technical Corporate Engineering team, ensuring stakeholders across Grafana have the technology they need to excel. This covers the historical way of managing corporate systems, including IT Operations, Internal Helpdesk, Corporate Security, and service development. This also covers the future of corporate systems, where developers and non-technical employees alike need to build automations, ship internal applications, and deploy background agentic workloads. Our job is to provide the core systems and platforms to optimize our current and future stacks and enable all employees to own their own workflows. 

We can build any tool we need, while knowing when to buy to improve velocity. We support a highly autonomous, technical, 100% remote, across the globe, cloud-native organization. To support our growth and ambitious vision, we embrace agile principles and values, share openly, default to action, and have an OSS-first mindset. We believe in high-velocity but sustainable expectations and timeframes, giving people the room to do great work, and keep our souls intact.

The Opportunity 

We are looking for a leader to curate and drive our Corporate Engineering team. You will be responsible for finishing the optimization of our current IT operations stack, and be the driver of our internal AI native strategy. You want to push decision-making to wherever the right information is, rather than centralizing approvals, and you can build the processes and systems to enable all teams to experiment and own their own tools. You embody DevOps principles, and long lead or approval times fill you with dread. You see shadow IT as a signal that we have a gap, rather than something to be controlled. 

You will lead a team that manages the operation and security of traditional corporate IT systems, help desk queues, and employee hardware, but also provides tools and platforms for other teams’ to effectively operate in. Your team is also significantly responsible for the operational and security strategy for internal AI usage, agentic workloads, and general automation at Grafana. You will guide your team building and delivering internal platforms that automate typical IT work and enable our employees to do their best work seamlessly. You must have significant engineering acumen as this is a highly technology-driven role.

This is a high-impact opportunity to define what IT and corporate systems looks like in the AI age at a technical, everything-as-code company. You will have a fully staffed team and significant autonomy to achieve objectives. If you read the Phoenix Project and Seat at the Table/Art of Business Value and it struck a chord then you are the next engineering leader we are looking for. 

What You’ll Be Going:

• Lead the team covering a range of existing areas, including corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues, and internal tooling development.
• Handle corporate security initiatives, deploying security and compliance checks in an employee-enabling way (guardrails and paved roads) in their daily workflows.
• Help define our wider internal AI rollout, enablement, and security strategy across all teams, not just developers. 
• Manage the relationships, negotiation, and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
• Make all work and costs visible, both internally to the team and enable stakeholder teams to understand their processes and work. Use this visibility to continuously improve processes.
• Understand and, where possible, leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges. Open-source what we come up with for the good of other Grafana users. 
• Act as a leader within the larger Foundations department, including all other platform, business application, and security teams. 
• Conduct regular 1:1s, coaching, and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Provide continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards.
• Participate in team activities. Be a participant in all work queues. Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming projects, ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. You will be part of your team’s and department's on-call rotation. 

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience running a software engineering operations 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 understand at least one cloud provider well, and have a working knowledge of k8s.
• Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems commonly used by modern tech companies, including the gamut of operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android), SSO (Okta, 1Password), workplace productivity tools (Google Workspace, Office) MDM (Jamf, Intune, FleetDM, Kolide), EDR, DLP, typical corporate SaaS platforms (Salesforce, Zendesk), AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Google, etc), and managing employee laptops and devices.
• You approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset, preferring enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks. You have experience providing internal platforms to other teams and see IT as a provider of tools, platforms, and automation, rather than a ticket-taking service provider.
• Knowledge of the current AI state of the art, and strong ideas on how to leverage effectively and safely across the enterprise in a way that enables experimentation rather than locking the organization into yesterday’s technology. 
• You are deeply curious about software, security, and the current and future states of technology. You keep your teams ahead of the curve.  
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator who can articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, and guiding via influence.
• Work Eastern-time oriented hours. Grafana Labs is a global company, and we need to maximize overlap time with our EMEA peers. 

Bonus Points:

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into leadership. Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers, and kubernetes expertise is a great plus. 
• Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for all core personas (non-development, code, agentic automation).
• A ready plan for how to secure AII 
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products, and experience using observability tooling to solve IT or security problems.
• Experience working with OSS communities.

In Ireland, the Base compensation range for this role is EU 133,000 - EU 167,000. 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.