Job Overview
Location
Republic of Ireland (Remote)
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering Manager
Date Posted
April 6, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead the Corporate Engineering team at Grafana Labs to optimize IT operations and drive internal AI-native strategy, enabling employees to own their workflows through automation and platform development.
- • Manage corporate systems including IT operations, helpdesk, employee device lifecycles, security initiatives, and vendor relationships while ensuring security and compliance are embedded as guardrails in daily workflows.
- • Join a remote-first, open-source driven company with over 20M global users of Grafana, serving clients like Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay, where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel innovation.
- • Develop leadership and technical expertise in scaling corporate systems in the AI age, mentoring teams, contributing to design reviews, and participating in on-call rotations while shaping internal platforms that can be open-sourced for the broader community.
🎯 Requirements
- • Experience running a software engineering operations team with a strong engineering background, capable of engaging in technical decisions and knowledgeable in at least one cloud provider and Kubernetes.
- • Deep hands-on experience managing and automating corporate IT systems including OS management (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android), SSO (Okta, 1Password), productivity tools (Google Workspace, Office), MDM (Jamf, Intune), EDR, DLP, and SaaS platforms (Salesforce, Zendesk).
- • Approach IT and corporate security with a DevOps mindset—favoring enablement, automation, and guardrails over restrictive gates—and have experience building internal platforms for other teams.
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences, comfortable influencing autonomous engineering teams.
- • Willingness to work Eastern-time oriented hours to maximize overlap with EMEA peers in a fully remote, global organization.
🏖️ Benefits
- • 100% remote work with a global culture, bringing together talent worldwide united by collaboration and shared purpose.
- • Transparent communication with open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- • Innovation-driven environment offering autonomy and support to ship great work and experiment with new ideas.
- • Open source roots grounded in community-driven values that shape how work is done.
- • Empowered teams with high trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- • Career growth pathways with defined opportunities to develop and advance your career.
- • Approachable leadership from transparent executives who are involved, visible, and human.
- • Generous time off: 30 days annual leave per year, including 3 dedicated Grafana Shutdown Days for true disconnection (subject to local legislation).
Skills & Technologies
About Raintank Inc.
Raintank Inc., operating as Grafana Labs, is the open-source company behind the Grafana observability platform. It develops and maintains Grafana dashboards, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics, and Grafana Cloud services, providing scalable monitoring and analytics for DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams worldwide. Grafana Labs supports on-prem and SaaS deployments with enterprise-grade features and commercial support.
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