Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering | UK | Remote

2 hours, 43 minutes 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.
  • Finish optimizing the current IT operations stack and drive the internal AI-native strategy.
  • Design processes and systems that push decision-making to the right place and enable teams to experiment and own their own tools.
  • Oversee corporate security initiatives by deploying security and compliance checks in employee-friendly workflows.
  • Define and execute the internal AI rollout, enablement, and security strategy across the company.
  • Manage relationships, negotiations, and contracts with core SaaS vendors.
  • Make work and costs visible to the team and stakeholders, and use that visibility to improve processes.
  • Leverage Grafana products and the broader ecosystem to solve corporate engineering problems, and open-source solutions where appropriate.
  • Lead within the wider Foundations department and collaborate with platform, business application, and security teams.
  • Coach, mentor, and give continuous feedback through regular 1:1s while participating in team queues, design reviews, and on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Experience running a software engineering operations team.
  • Strong engineering background with the ability to engage in technical discussions and drive strong technical decisions.
  • Experience with at least one cloud provider and working knowledge of Kubernetes.
  • Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
  • Experience with SSO, workplace productivity tools, MDM, EDR, DLP, and corporate SaaS platforms such as Okta, 1Password, Google Workspace, Office, Jamf, Intune, FleetDM, Kolide, Salesforce, and Zendesk.
  • Experience with AI providers and internal AI tooling such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Google tools.
  • DevOps-oriented approach to IT and security, with experience building internal platforms, automation, and guardrails instead of ticket-based service delivery.
  • Knowledge of current AI state of the art and how to apply it safely and effectively across the enterprise.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to work Eastern-time-oriented hours to overlap with EMEA peers.
  • Technical background with programming or software engineering experience is a plus.
  • Go experience, multi-cloud experience, and Kubernetes expertise are preferred.
  • Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling for non-development, code, and agentic automation use cases is a plus.
  • A clear plan for how to secure AI is a bonus.
  • 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 preferred.

Benefits

  • Base compensation in the UK of GBP 117,000 to GBP 147,000, depending on level, experience, and skillset.
  • All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • 100% remote work with a global team.
  • 30 days of annual leave, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding for new hires.
  • Career growth pathways and development opportunities.
  • Transparent communication and approachable leadership.
  • High-trust, autonomy-driven, innovation-focused culture.

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