Engineering Manager, Observability Department
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Grafana LabsOpen-source Observability
Sweden | Remote, NASA (EST-only) or EMEA time zonesFull-TimeManager
Salary878,578 - 1,054,000 SEK per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Distributed Systems
Requirements
- Enough domain knowledge in observability and OpenTelemetry to manage a team that will collaborate closely with the OpenTelemetry collector community.
- Comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, be it technical or product focused.
- Ability to keep up-to-date with the latest technical trends and shifts to maintain and enhance understanding of team challenges.
- 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 and practical experience folding them into a team’s workflow.
Responsibilities
- Manage and develop the team of Alloy engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.
- Support the Alloy team on their path to closer collaboration with the OpenTelemetry collector community.
- Collaborate closely with go-to-market to ensure customers and prospects are successful with their Alloy journey.
- Work closely with product and engineering leadership to ensure Alloy fits 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.
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