Senior Engineering Manager, Grafana Frontend | Sweden | Remote

The role

You will lead the Frontend Platform and Navigation squads, owning their performance, delivery, and customer outcomes. You will develop senior engineers, partner with Product and Design, and improve how teams work through AI and automation.

What you will do

• Be accountable for the performance of two distributed engineering squads
• Own hiring and team planning across both squads
• Lead discovery by engaging with customers, community members and internal users
• Partner with Product, Design and engineering leaders to set priorities
• Own delivery across both squads from discovery through rollout and measurement
• Use AI regularly in management work to synthesise research and feedback
• Improve how squads plan, make decisions and deliver
• Set engineering direction for frontend foundations and navigation
• Set and uphold engineering standards for quality, security and operability
• Participate in the engineering management on-call rota

Required qualifications

• Significant experience managing senior engineers, building healthy teams and developing technical leaders
• A strong technical foundation in modern web or frontend systems
• A track record of turning ambiguous, cross-team problems into clear priorities and measurable results
• Strong product and customer judgement
• Clear, concise written communication
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, globally distributed organisation
• An appreciation for open-source development
• Practical experience using AI and automation in leadership work

Nice to have

• Experience with React, TypeScript or comparable large-scale frontend ecosystems
• Experience leading a developer platform team, including support for plugins or extensions
• Experience with navigation, search, information architecture or resource-management products
• Experience delivering multitenant SaaS or major platform migrations
• Experience working on a widely adopted open-source product

Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants
• Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
• In-Person onboarding
• 30 days annual leave per annum, including 3 days for Grafana Shutdown Days

About the company

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform. It is a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries.