Senior Engineering Manager - Corporate Engineering | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs is a remote‑first, open‑source powerhouse. More than 20 million users of Grafana, the open‑source visualization tool, rely on it worldwide. Grafana Labs helps over 3,000 companies—including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase and eBay—manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self‑managed with Grafana Enterprise. We’re scaling fast while staying true to what makes us unique: an open‑source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation‑driven environment where transparency, autonomy and trust fuel everything we do.

This is a remote position. Candidates are considered only in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Ireland and the UK.

About The Team: We are a technical Corporate Engineering team, ensuring stakeholders across Grafana have the technology they need to excel. Our remit includes the management of corporate systems—IT operations, internal helpdesk, corporate security and service development—as well as the future of corporate systems, where developers and non‑technical employees alike build automations, ship internal applications and deploy background agentic workloads. We support a highly autonomous, technical, 100% remote, cloud‑native organisation that embraces agile principles and values.

The Opportunity: We are looking for a leader to curate and drive our Corporate Engineering team. You will finish the optimisation of our current IT operations stack and be the driver of our internal AI‑native strategy. You will lead a team that manages the operation and security of traditional corporate IT systems, help desk queues and employee hardware, while also providing tools and platforms that other teams can operate with effectively. Your team is responsible for the operational and security strategy for internal AI usage, agentic workloads and general automation at Grafana.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead the team covering a range of existing areas, including corporate systems, employee device lifecycles, helpdesk queues and internal tooling development.
• Handle corporate security initiatives, deploying security and compliance checks in an employee‑enabling way.
• Help define our wider internal AI rollout, enablement and security strategy across all teams.
• Manage relationships, negotiation and contracting with core SaaS vendors.
• Make all work and costs visible, both internally to the team and enable stakeholder teams to understand their processes and work.
• Use this visibility to continuously improve processes.
• Understand and leverage the Grafana product and ecosystem to solve corporate engineering challenges.
• Open‑source what we come up with for the good of other Grafana users.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, coaching and mentoring to ensure team members are motivated, happy and engaged.
• Participate in team activities, contribute to and review design documents for upcoming projects.
• Serve in the team’s on‑call rotation.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience running a software engineering operations team.
• Strong engineering background capable of engaging in technical conversations.
• Understanding of at least one cloud provider and working knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Deep hands‑on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems.
• Approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset.
• Experience providing internal platforms to other teams.
• Knowledge of the current AI state of the art and strong ideas on leveraging it effectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator.
• Comfortable working with engineering teams that have a strong sense of autonomy.
• Work Eastern‑time oriented hours.

Bonus Points:

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience.
• Experience with Go, multiple cloud providers and Kubernetes expertise.
• Significant experience leveraging and securing AI tooling.
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products.
• Experience working with OSS communities.

Compensation: In the UK, the base compensation range for this role is GBP 117,000–GBP 147,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience and skillset.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture.
• Scaling Organisation.
• Transparent Communication.
• Innovation‑Driven.
• Open Source Roots.
• Empowered Teams.
• Career Growth Pathways.
• Approachable Leadership.
• Passionate People.
• In‑Person onboarding.
• Balance is Key.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique.