Sr Engineering Manager

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 117420 - EUR 140904.  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.