This is a remote position and we're considering candidates in Germany.
About the role:
This is a remote opportunity, and we would be interested in applications in Germany. The Engineering team is located in the US and India timezones.We are looking for an Sr Engineering Manager to help us grow and develop our engineering team. Our managers 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.
You’ll be responsible for managing a team of distributed engineers working across a variety of systems and helping them to perform at their best.The Asserts team joined Grafana Labs as part of an acquisition and is now growing. The team is responsible for building and operating a set of low-latency microservices built in Java. The services provide automated Root Cause Insights by actively scanning the Grafana Metrics, Traces, and Logs databases and integrating with the Dashboarding and Alerting components. The Asserts services are multi-tenant, highly available and process and store data in Graph and Timeseries DB. We will soon be rolling it out to thousands of self-service customers and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and do it all more efficiently.We want customers to have a faster time to value without needing to become experts in the data and underlying query languages.
Requirements:
- You should have enough technical skills/understanding of our stack to manage a highly technical team/product.
- You will act as project manager as well as work with product owners to ensure the product roadmap is defined and up-to-date
- You have a strong software engineering background and are capable of engaging in technical conversations and challenging teams to arrive at strong technical decisions themselves
- 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
- Ideally, you will have a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience and have worked as a Software Engineer before moving into Management
- Asserts services are built on Java. All our core databases are built on Go.
- Familiarity with public Cloud and/or Kubernetes would be a strong advantage
- Familiarity with Git, Linux, Prometheus, Graphite, Influxdb and/or Elasticsearch would all be an advantage
Your day-to-day will include:
- Managing release schedule, assisting and participating in cross-functional collaboration inside and outside the team
- Collaborating with Product, UX, leadership, and engineers to help define and influence product strategy, roadmaps, and technical designs
- Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features
- Ensuring features are well-defined and ready for development
- Advise on how to break down features into tasks
- Make sure we are meeting both quality and availability goals
- Maintaining headcount by working with our People Ops team to attract and hire talent
- Leading Regular 1:1s to ensure your direct reports are motivated, engaged, and learning
- Coaching and mentoring your direct reports
We offer comprehensive manager training and support; we want you to grow in this role.In Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 117,420 - EUR 140,904. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.*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.
About Grafana Labs:
There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with
Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
Benefits:
For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our
careers page.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.
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