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Engineering Manager, Identity and Access | Canada | Remote
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. 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 ).

We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants based in Canada (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: make sign-in smooth for end users, and make access controls clear, secure, and predictable for administrators.

The IAM team is responsible for authentication and authorization across Grafana, working across both our open-source 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  code runs in critical request paths, so design decisions directly affect performance, reliability, and security across Grafana Labs’ 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 security 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 security, platform, cloud infrastructure, and the broader Grafana engineering organization to drive initiatives that span team boundaries.

Foster a team culture grounded in security‑first thinking, technical rigor, and a respectful environment where people can do their best work.

Contribute to technical discussions, helping the team make strong architectural decisions on authentication flows and multi‑tenant design.

As we are remote‑first and our engineering organization is entirely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude, good communication skills, and transparency are a must.

We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company‑funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI‑assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow‑ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards.

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