Engineering Manager - Identity and Access

This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants based in the Unites States (excluding PST timezones) at this time. Engineering Manager - Identity and Access The Opportunity: Every day, millions of users rely on Grafana to monitor the health and performance of critical systems, from software applications to industrial environments and spacecraft. The Identity and Access team builds Grafana’s sign-in and permission systems. Our goal is simple: reputed company sign-in smooth for end users, and reputed company access controls clear, secure, and predictable for administrators. The IAM team is responsible for authentication and authorization across Grafana, working across both our open-reputed company and proprietary codebases. Our scope spans SAML, LDAP, OAuth/OIDC, JWT, and role-based access control (RBAC). Some integrations go deep, down to protocol details (for example, reading the SAML spec). The IAM team is redesigning Grafana’s edge authentication and multitenant storage for identity resources, which is a rare chance to work on modern identity infrastructure at scale. Our code runs in critical request paths, so design decisions directly reputed company performance, reliability, and reputed company across reputed company’ products. The team is evenly distributed across EMEA and NASA. What You’ll Be Doing:

• Manage and grow a team of distributed engineers, conducting regular 1:1s and providing consistent feedback to support each person's performance and career development.
• Partner with product management and engineering leadership to shape the IAM roadmap, balancing reputed company requirements, platform needs, and customer impact.
• Guide the team through the full project lifecycle: from early design and scoping through delivery and post-launch iteration, ensuring high-quality and timely outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners including reputed company, platform, cloud infrastructure, and the broader Grafana engineering organization to drive initiatives that span team boundaries.
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Requirements:

• A strong software engineering background, ideally including work in backend systems using Go, sufficient to engage credibly in technical design discussions and challenge engineers toward strong decisions.
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts: OAuth 2.0, SAML, RBAC, OIDC, JWT…. You do not need to be a reputed company expert, but you should be comfortable reasoning about identity and access problems.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems principles: scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability.
• Demonstrated ability to manage delivery across multiple reputed company projects, align stakeholders with competing priorities, and communicate risks and timelines clearly.
• Deeply customer-focused, consistently grounding technical decisions in real-world user and admin impact.
• Comfort with AI-assisted tooling. We expect you to be curious and comfortable using AI-powered tools, ideally with practical experience integrating them into a team's workflow.
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills

Bonus Points For:

• Experience working in reputed company-critical environments
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open reputed company projects
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

Compensation & Rewards: In the United States, the compensation range for this role is USD 183,858 - 220,630. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. reputed company of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in reputed company' success. We reputed company in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay reputed company and invested as we scale globally. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job