Engineering Manager, Observability Dept | Sweden | Remote

2 weeks, 1 day ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Grafana

Grafana

Grafana is the open observability platform providing analytics, monitoring, and visualization solutions with a focus on user control and cost efficiency.

IT Services
1K-5K
Founded 2014
$535M raised

Description

  • Manage and develop the Alloy engineering team, including regular feedback and career development conversations.
  • Support the team’s collaboration with the OpenTelemetry collector community and help remove roadblocks.
  • Work closely with go-to-market teams to help customers and prospects succeed with Alloy.
  • Partner with product and engineering leadership to ensure Alloy fits the Grafana Cloud user experience.
  • Guide projects from early ideation through planning, execution, and post-launch delivery.
  • Foster a psychologically safe environment that encourages learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate across team boundaries and with other functions to solve customer problems.
  • Contribute to initiatives outside the immediate team scope when needed.

Requirements

  • Domain knowledge in observability and OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience managing engineering teams with a strong sense of autonomy.
  • Ability to manage relationships while staying current on technical trends.
  • Comfort collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment.
  • Strong, empathetic communication skills that build trust and psychological safety.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, align stakeholders, and improve team performance.
  • Deep customer focus with decisions grounded in user needs and real-world impact.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability.
  • Comfort using AI-assisted development tools and ideally practical experience incorporating them into a team workflow.
  • Candidates must be located in NASA (EST-only) or EMEA time zones.

Benefits

  • Remote-first, 100% global work environment.
  • Base salary in Sweden of SEK 878,578 to SEK 1,054,000, depending on level, experience, and skillset.
  • Equity and bonus eligibility, where applicable.
  • 30 days of annual leave, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • Company-funded access to modern AI coding assistants and frontier models.
  • In-person onboarding to help new hires ramp up effectively.
  • Career growth pathways and development opportunities.
  • Transparent, high-trust culture with approachable leadership and strong team autonomy.

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