Engineering Manager - Observability | Ireland | Remote
Core
Manage and develop a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers building Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub for Grafana Cloud's observability platform.
Role type
Engineering Manager (Backend/Frontend)
Builds
Fleet Management (central control plane), Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, Instrumentation Hub
Domain
Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Team management, stakeholder alignment, distributed systems architecture, observability principles, AI-assisted development workflow, cross-timezone collaboration
Preferred skills
Experience with OpenTelemetry, experience building central control planes for collector fleets, practical experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows
Technologies
Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope
Responsibilities
Provide regular feedback and support career growth for team members, collaborate with go-to-market on customer success, guide projects from ideation to post-launch, foster psychological safety and innovation, contribute to projects outside team scope
Seniority
Manager, hands-on leadership