Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend | United Kingdom | Remote

What you'll do

• Manage, develop, hire, and plan across two distributed engineering squads; set expectations and build accountable, healthy teams.
• Own discovery, roadmaps, delivery, and rollout in partnership with Product, Design, customers, and engineering leaders.
• Set frontend and navigation direction, improve engineering workflows using AI and automation, and participate in the engineering management on-call rota.

What they ask for

• Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams, and developing technical leaders.
• Strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems.
• Track record turning ambiguous cross-team problems into priorities and measurable results while managing delivery and operational demands.
• Strong product and customer judgement, clear written communication, remote collaboration skills, and practical experience using AI and automation in leadership and team workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with React, TypeScript, or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems.
• Experience leading a developer platform team, including plugin or extension support; navigation/search; multitenant SaaS or platform migrations; or widely adopted open-source products.

Pay

GBP 117,949 - GBP 141,539 (base salary)

Tools

React, TypeScript, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google

AI focus

Use AI in management to synthesize research and feedback, inform roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination. Lead AI and automation adoption in engineering and operational workflows, including AI-assisted discovery, development, and validation; use Grafana AI capabilities for observability and incident work.