Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services | Canada | Remote
Grafana
14 days ago
Remote, Canada
Senior
Responsibilities
- Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure.
- Diagnose and eliminate cross-layer failure modes.
- Design safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale.
- Improve observability, automation, and operational ergonomics.
- Partner with database and platform teams for safe scaling and query performance.
- Work with distributed systems behavior and Kubernetes scheduling dynamics.
- Serve as a primary escalation point and on-call for incidents.
- Manage relationships with system vendors.
Requirements
- 6+ years of engineering experience in SRE, platform engineering, or distributed systems roles.
- Experience operating distributed systems in production.
- Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems design and trade-offs.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Go.
- Working knowledge of Linux internals and cloud storage.
- Experience in blameless incident response and post-incident reviews.
- Clear communicator with the ability to collaborate across teams.
Benefits
- 100% remote work with a global culture.
- 30 days of annual leave, including Grafana Shutdown Days.
- Equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- Access to modern AI coding assistants and tools.
- Defined opportunities for career growth and development.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSAzureClickHouseGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmKubernetesLinuxPostgreSQLSnowflakeTerraform
Categories
BackendDevOps