Engineering Manager - Grafana Application Security | EMEA | (Remote, UK)

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J. P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana. com and follow us on LinkedIn and X . 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 position and we're considering candidates in the UK, Spain, and Ireland. About the role: We are looking for an engineering manager to lead our application security engineering team. You will be responsible for developing and implementing security strategies, as well as liaising with other teams delivering parts of our overall security posture. You'll be accountable for the security of software you don't write, in teams that don't report to you.

The people who do well in this role get there by making the secure path the easiest one. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of implementing and improving the maturity of security programs, through the use of automation and systematic approaches in Cloud-based SaaS organizations, and possess excellent leadership and communication skills. You can tell the difference between a finding and a risk, and know how to prioritise risk mitigation, guiding the squad towards the most effective use of their time. You must have significant engineering acumen as this is a highly technology-driven role. Your main role will be to support your engineering team and to do that you should be able to review a threat model, challenge a severity rating, and contribute to a design review. Responsibilities : - Lead our application security team covering a range of areas, including application security, cloud security, and internal tooling development. - Lead 1st and 3rd party vulnerability management, including coordinated disclosure with external reporters and embargoed fixes. - 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.