GRAFANA LABS
Slot : Engineering Manager
Working location: - Remote, EU Timezone
Company : GRAFANA LABSCity : New York
Country : United States
Industries : IT, software engineering, Internet
Employment type : Permanent contract,Fixed-term contract
Region : International
Company Description
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, Loki and Tempo, the leading open source software for visualizing operational data. Grafana Labs helps users get the most out of Grafana, enabling them to take control of their unified monitoring and avoid vendor lock in and the spiraling costs of closed solutions.
This is a remote position and we're considering candidates in the US, UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Austria, and the Netherlands. The team sit in the EU timezones!
The Experience Team At Grafana
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to help us grow our Experience team. The Grafana Experience squads build on top of the core software that is Grafana OSS. Those squads are dedicated to particular use cases that address separate markets and aim to boost adoption. The existing squads already do this for Observability (still our main story), Edge (just over a year old, focusing on the IoT market), and recently BI (bringing business data next to monitoring data). Their work goes beyond maintaining datasource plugins (Prometheus, Loki, etc.) in their respective fields. The squads add core functionality to Grafana that supports their main workflows (e.g., Observability added the Explore section and workflows from and to dashboards). As a manager, you’ll take an active role in creating a productive environment for our engineers; be it through removing blockers and impediments, facilitating cross-team collaboration and understanding, or by aiding the team in helping themselves by constantly improving and refining their working practices.
What a typical EM’s day-to-day at Grafana Labs looks like:
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, Loki and Tempo, the leading open source software for visualizing operational data. Grafana Labs helps users get the most out of Grafana, enabling them to take control of their unified monitoring and avoid vendor lock in and the spiraling costs of closed solutions.
This is a remote position and we're considering candidates in the US, UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Austria, and the Netherlands. The team sit in the EU timezones!
The Experience Team At Grafana
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to help us grow our Experience team. The Grafana Experience squads build on top of the core software that is Grafana OSS. Those squads are dedicated to particular use cases that address separate markets and aim to boost adoption. The existing squads already do this for Observability (still our main story), Edge (just over a year old, focusing on the IoT market), and recently BI (bringing business data next to monitoring data). Their work goes beyond maintaining datasource plugins (Prometheus, Loki, etc.) in their respective fields. The squads add core functionality to Grafana that supports their main workflows (e.g., Observability added the Explore section and workflows from and to dashboards). As a manager, you’ll take an active role in creating a productive environment for our engineers; be it through removing blockers and impediments, facilitating cross-team collaboration and understanding, or by aiding the team in helping themselves by constantly improving and refining their working practices.
- Thrive:We have regular and frequent 1:1s to ensure that our direct reports are motivated, happy, and engaged.
- We also coach, mentor, and advise. Upwards, sideways, and every-which-ways.
- Progress over Perfection: We provide continuous feedback to engineers to ensure that they can add value, while trying to maintain a high standard.Seeking Diverse Perspectives:
- Gathering a range of opinions from both engineers and management to define upcoming features, contributing to design documents, and attending and contributing to open discussions.
- This is also reflected in maintaining headcount-- we spend quite a lot of our time reaching out to URM’s to try and diversify the voices here in Grafana, every day. We work with our PeopleOps team closely to accomplish this.
- Say:Do Ratio: We ensure features are well-defined and ready for development, and then set the wheels in motion to make sure they are delivered.
- Respectfully empowered to start up new initiatives, contribute to ongoing ones, and encourage and nurture others to do the same.
- OSS is in our DNA, and as such working with the community is something that happens regularly for us. We default to transparency and try to be as open with everyone.
- You'll work closely with the your squad's tech lead Ryan (Edge) or Dominik (BI), your manager peers Mihaela and Santiago, the platform leads Natalia and Jess, your manager David, as well as our long-time Grafanistas Torkel and Daniel.
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We Seek Teammates With The Following Skill Set
We Seek Teammates With The Following Skill Set
- The core focus of the role is people. Technical skills are desirable in order to understand some of our stack and manage a highly technical team (we primarily work with Go on back-end development and TS/React on the Frontend).
- Delivery is another part of your responsibilities. You are able to work with your team to set milestones, clearly communicate delivery timelines, and help remove impediments.
- You will work closely with stakeholders and product managers to ensure the product roadmap is defined and up-to-date. You collaborate with others to ensure the product direction aligns with our company mission and define OKRs to demonstrate that.
- You focus on quality above speed of delivery while encouraging a short feedback cycle and experimentation.
- You have a strong software engineering background and are capable of engaging in technical conversations and challenge teams to arrive at strong technical decisions together.
- You are comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, be it technical or product-focussed.
- Former colleagues would say you’re kind and good with people. You are adept at managing relationships and 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 team might face.
Experience level : 2 to 5 years
Educational level :Bachelor
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