Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Backend
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CanadaFull-TimeManager
Salary211,450 - 253,740 CAD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Backend DevelopmentGoMentoringDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with experience leading highly technical engineering teams.
- Proven experience managing distributed or remote engineering teams within fast-paced and collaborative environments.
- Solid understanding of backend development, distributed systems, platform engineering, and scalable infrastructure architectures.
- Technical familiarity with Go or similar backend technologies, with the ability to engage meaningfully in architectural and technical discussions.
- Demonstrated ability to manage delivery timelines, set milestones, and drive execution across complex engineering initiatives.
- Excellent leadership, mentoring, and interpersonal skills with a strong focus on team development and organizational health.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, stakeholders, and customer-facing teams.
- Comfortable operating within highly autonomous engineering cultures that emphasize ownership and accountability.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to facilitate discussions, resolve conflicts, and align teams around shared objectives.
- Passion for open-source technologies, innovation, and developer-focused products.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support a distributed backend engineering team, fostering a collaborative, high-performing, and growth-oriented environment.
- Mentor, coach, and develop engineers through regular feedback, career development conversations, and ongoing performance support.
- Collaborate with technical teams to drive architectural decisions, platform evolution, and backend scalability initiatives.
- Work closely with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to define roadmaps, priorities, delivery timelines, and measurable objectives.
- Help teams remove blockers, improve workflows, and continuously refine engineering processes and delivery practices.
- Ensure high standards for code quality, reliability, experimentation, and developer experience while balancing innovation with operational stability.
- Contribute to technical discussions related to backend systems, application platforms, and distributed infrastructure, primarily within Go-based environments.
- Promote collaboration across engineering, documentation, customer experience, and community teams to support product adoption and usability.
- Support AI-assisted engineering practices, encouraging responsible use of modern coding assistants, automation, and productivity tools.
- Foster an inclusive, transparent, and empowered team culture aligned with open-source and community-driven principles.
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