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Grafana Labs

Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend | USA | Remote

$209K–$250K

United States (Remote) +7 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026

Location
United States (Remote)
Canada (Remote)
Germany (Remote)
Ireland (Remote)
Spain (Remote)
Sweden (Remote)
UK (Remote)
USA (Remote)

About the job

Leads Grafana’s Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, setting engineering direction and delivering improvements to frontend foundations, navigation, search, and resource organization.

What you'll do

  • Manage, coach, hire, and plan across two distributed engineering squads; set expectations and address performance gaps.
  • Own discovery, roadmaps, delivery, and measurement, partnering with Product, Design, engineering leaders, customers, and community members.
  • Set frontend and navigation engineering direction and standards; drive AI and automation adoption, productivity improvements, and on-call response improvements.

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 of turning ambiguous cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results while managing delivery risks and operational demands.
  • Strong product and customer judgement, clear written communication, ability to work remotely across a global organization, and practical experience using AI and automation in leadership and team adoption.

Nice to have

  • Experience with React, TypeScript, or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems.
  • Experience leading a developer platform team, supporting plugins or extensions, or working in navigation/search, multitenant SaaS, major platform migrations, or widely adopted open-source products.

Pay

USD 208,602 - USD 250,322 (base salary)

Tools

React, TypeScript, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google

AI focus

Use AI in management to synthesize feedback and research, support roadmap and resourcing decisions, and streamline coordination. Lead adoption of AI and automation in engineering workflows; evaluate impact and validate AI-assisted work. The role also considers AI-assisted discovery in Grafana and uses Grafana AI capabilities for observability and incident investigation.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)