Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Backend
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CanadaFull-TimeManager
Salary211,450 - 253,740 CAD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years in software engineering; 3+ years in engineering management
- Required Skills
- GoDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong exposure to backend systems and distributed architectures.
- 3+ years of experience in engineering management, leading and scaling high-performing technical teams.
- Strong technical background, ideally with experience in Go and modern cloud-native backend development.
- Ability to engage deeply in architectural discussions and guide teams toward sound technical decisions.
- Experience working in high-scale, distributed systems environments with a focus on reliability and performance.
- Strong collaboration skills with product and cross-functional stakeholders, including roadmap and OKR definition.
- Proven ability to balance delivery execution with long-term technical quality and system design.
- Comfortable working in highly autonomous engineering cultures with distributed teams.
- Strong communication, coaching, and mentoring skills with a people-first leadership approach.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of backend engineers, ensuring strong engagement, performance, and professional development.
- Drive execution of the backend roadmap, helping teams define milestones, remove blockers, and deliver high-quality features on time.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate closely with product managers and stakeholders to define OKRs, prioritize work, and align engineering efforts with product strategy.
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on quality, fast feedback loops, and continuous experimentation.
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration across engineering, product, documentation, and customer-facing teams.
- Support and improve engineering processes, delivery practices, and developer productivity across the backend organization.
- Encourage adoption of modern development practices, including AI-assisted workflows, while maintaining strong engineering standards.
- Contribute to hiring, team building, and efforts to improve diversity and inclusion within the engineering organization.
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