Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering | Ireland | Remote

3 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
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

  • Lead the Corporate Engineering team across corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues, and internal tooling development.
  • Own the optimization of the current IT operations stack and drive the company’s internal AI-native strategy.
  • Shape and implement employee-friendly corporate security and compliance guardrails within daily workflows.
  • Guide the strategy for internal AI usage, agentic workloads, and automation across the organization.
  • Manage relationships, negotiations, and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
  • Make work, costs, and processes visible to the team and stakeholders, and use that visibility to drive continuous improvement.
  • Leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges and open-source useful solutions where possible.
  • Lead and collaborate within the broader Foundations department across platform, business application, and security teams.
  • Coach, mentor, and provide continuous feedback through regular 1:1s to support team engagement and performance.
  • Participate directly in team work queues, design reviews, and on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Experience leading a software engineering operations team.
  • Strong engineering background with the ability to engage in technical conversations and drive sound technical decisions.
  • Working knowledge of at least one cloud provider and Kubernetes.
  • Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
  • Experience with SSO, including Okta and 1Password.
  • Experience with workplace productivity tools such as Google Workspace and Office, MDM tools such as Jamf, Intune, FleetDM, or Kolide, and security controls such as EDR and DLP.
  • Experience supporting corporate SaaS platforms such as Salesforce and Zendesk.
  • Experience working with AI providers and tooling such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Google tools.
  • DevOps-oriented approach to IT and security, with a preference for automation, enablement, and guardrails over gates.
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Comfort working with autonomous engineering teams and guiding through influence.
  • Availability to work Eastern-time-oriented hours to maximize overlap with EMEA peers.
  • Technical background in programming or software engineering before moving into leadership is a plus.
  • Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers, and Kubernetes expertise is a plus.
  • Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for non-development, code, and agentic automation use cases is a plus.
  • Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and observability tooling for IT or security problems is a plus.
  • Experience working with open-source communities is a plus.

Benefits

  • Base compensation in Ireland of EU 133,000 to EU 167,000, with country-specific pay ranges elsewhere.
  • All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • 100% remote, global work environment.
  • 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding with fellow new hires.
  • Transparent, high-trust, low-ego culture with open decision-making.
  • Career growth pathways and opportunities to develop.
  • Approachable leadership and regular company-wide communication.

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