Senior Engineering Manager

**About the role**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Define, optimize, and implement the engineering strategy in concert with the security leadership team, ICs and stakeholders across the business
- Regular 1:1s, coaching and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Providing continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards
- Collaborating with our Engineering Leaders and other organization stakeholders to help define and influence wider product strategy, roadmaps and designs
- Be actively engaged with significant incidents, including preparation, simulation, response, and affected customer notification and communications
- Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming projects. Ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. Advise on how to break down projects into tasks

**Requirements**:

- Prior experience running a security engineering team
- You have a strong 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 to maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face
- You approach security with a DevOps mindset. You prefer security by enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks
- You have familiarity with securing and operating on public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) providers, with Kubernetes, and with securing combined open-source software (OSS) and SaaS products
- You are an excellent written and verbal communicator. You can articulate complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are adept at translating security problems to business impact

**Bonus Points**:

- A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into security & leadership
- Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products. Experience in using observability tooling to solve security problems.
- Experience working with OSS communities
- Experience securing large-scale distributed systems

In Spain, the base compensation range for this role is €100,556 - €120,667. 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.

**About Grafana Labs**:There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies - including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay - manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

**Benefits**:For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

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