Grafana

Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Spain | Remote

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3 months ago
Remote, SpainStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments.
  • Define and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models while reducing SLO burn and noisy escalations.
  • Design and implement automation, self-healing, auto-scaling, and other solutions that improve reliability and eliminate toil.
  • Lead customer-impacting incident response, on-call escalation, post-incident reviews, and customer communication when needed.
  • Design fault-tolerant, scalable solutions and improve observability across customer environments.
  • Influence product features, technical designs, roadmaps, and strategy to improve production scalability and operability.
  • Review pull requests and design documents and teach Site Reliability Engineering practices to other engineers.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years in SRE, CRE, or production engineering.
  • Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, plus familiarity with Helm, Terraform, or Jsonnet.
  • Experience operating multi-tenant production systems and designing and implementing SLOs.
  • Experience with one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, or Java.
  • Experience with Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, performance, scaling, and failure modes.
  • Strong technical leadership experience, including leading projects, mentoring engineers, and serving as a force multiplier.
  • Experience participating in incident response, conducting investigations, and writing high-quality post-incident reviews.
  • Ability to partner deeply with product engineering teams and work autonomously.
  • Formal customer reliability engineering experience is strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • 100% remote role for candidates in the UK, Sweden, Spain, or Germany
  • In-person onboarding
  • 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
  • Career growth pathways and a transparent, collaborative global culture
Grafana

About Grafana

1,001-5,000 employees

Grafana Labs builds open-source observability tools and a managed SaaS, Grafana Cloud, used by engineering and SRE teams to monitor, visualize, and analyze telemetry. Its products include Grafana dashboards plus Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), and Mimir (metrics), offered as cloud subscriptions and enterprise software. Privately held and headquartered in New York, it serves customers such as Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce.

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