Engineering Manager - Observability

Remote from Spain·Added 2 days ago

Grafana Labs

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What they offer

€94,000 - €117,000 a year
Gross, as stated in the ad.
About €5,050 - €6,110 a month after tax, or €5,630 - €7,090 under the Beckham regime.
Fully remote
Only from certain places, per the ad: “We are considering candidates in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK only.”

What they ask for

Have the right to work in Spain
Grafana Labs doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.
Work in English
English is required, per the ad.

The role

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software - including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope - without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.

The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it.

What you'll do

Manage and develop the team of backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person's growth through career conversations. This is a remote team, distributed between EMEA and NASA.
Collaborate closely with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects are successful with their Observability collection journey.
Work closely with product and engineering leadership to ensure Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub fit seamlessly into the end-to-end user experience for Grafana cloud products.
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.

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 new perspective to the software.

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 the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Requirements

What we're looking for

Experience in either of these areas is a strong advantage: Observability (especially OpenTelemetry), or building a central control plane that manages fleets of collectors.
You will be comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, be it technical or product focused.
While you're great with people and adept at managing relationships, you still keep up-to-date with the latest technical trends and shifts in order to maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face.
Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a fully remote environment, using clear, empathetic communication to build trust, connection, and psychological safety.
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, 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.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

In Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 94,000 - EUR 117,000. 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.

*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.

Visa & relocation

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

How they hire

5 steps5 interviews

Recruiter conversation
With a recruiter
Initial discussion to align on your experience, the role and your goals, with time for your questions.
Hiring manager & leadership interviews
With hiring manager and leadership
Conversations about expectations, impact and mutual fit with the people you would work with closely.
Practical challenge
A role-relevant exercise such as a coding task, presentation or take-home assignment that reflects real work; no trick questions.
Wayfinder interview
With a cross-functional team member · Not every role
For senior and sales roles, an additional conversation with a cross-functional team member.
Final interviews
A deeper dive into collaboration, decision-making and your potential impact on the team.

Grafana Labs aims to decide within two business days of the final interview.
Interviews are structured, behavioural and situational, and every candidate goes through the same process.

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the leading open-source observability platform, along with other popular open-source projects like Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. The company provides a comprehensive suite of products for monitoring, logging, and tracing, serving a wide range of industries globally. With a strong focus on open-source innovation, Grafana Labs has grown into a major player in the observability space, with a distributed workforce and a strong emphasis on remote work.

In Spain, Grafana Labs has a significant remote presence, with many roles open to candidates based in the country. The company is known for its remote-first culture, which is highly attractive to international professionals. They value flexibility, collaboration, and a strong commitment to open-source principles. For international hires, Grafana Labs offers the opportunity to work with a globally distributed team, contributing to products used by millions of users worldwide.

Industry: Observability
Founded: 2014
Employees: 1,000–5,000
Headquarters: New York, USA
Website: grafana.com

Good to know if you are moving

Grafana Labs is a remote-first company, and many roles in Spain are fully remote, offering flexibility for international professionals.
The company is a major contributor to open-source software, providing opportunities to work on widely-used projects like Grafana, Loki, and Tempo.
Grafana Labs has a strong global presence, with employees in over 40 countries, making it a diverse and inclusive workplace.
The company offers competitive compensation and benefits, including equity, which is attractive for international hires.
Spain-based roles are part of the EMEA team, allowing for collaboration with colleagues across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

In their own words

About the company & team

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

We're scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and that's okay. If this role excites you, we'd love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

We build and maintain the configuration and deployment tooling that bridges the gap between "I want observability" and "I have observability,". To achieve this the team owns Fleet Management, the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and the Instrumentation Hub. Fleet Management is the cloud-based central control plane our customers use to manage hundreds of thousands of Observability Collectors in the wild. The Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart is used to effectively deploy Observability Collection in Kubernetes based environments. The Instrumentation Hub seamlessly combines Fleet Management and the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart to achieve a magic 1-command instrumentation experience.

Additional information

100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
Scaling Organization - Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
Transparent Communication - Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
Innovation-Driven - Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
Open Source Roots - Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
Empowered Teams - High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
Career Growth Pathways - Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
Approachable Leadership - Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
Passionate People - Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new 'Grafanistas' to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.

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