Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE

Grafana Labs
Spain
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 94,025 - 112,830 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Kubernetes","Helm","Terraform","Jsonnet","Go","Python","Java","Linux","Networking","Observability","Incident Response"]

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Software Engineer - SRE to strengthen reliability of Grafana Cloud databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) across AWS, GCP and Azure. You’ll own production reliability for high-SLA customers, partner with product engineering squads, design automation, refine SLOs, and lead incident response—delivering scalable, fault-tolerant multi-tenant cloud database services.

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Grafana Labs
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Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE

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Job Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Software Engineer - SRE to strengthen reliability of Grafana Cloud databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) across AWS, GCP and Azure. You’ll own production reliability for high-SLA customers, partner with product engineering squads, design automation, refine SLOs, and lead incident response—delivering scalable, fault-tolerant multi-tenant cloud database services.
Location: Spain
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner closely with product engineering squads (embedded model) and own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments
  • •Design and implement automation to scale reliability practices and ensure customers meet SLO targets
  • •Define and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models; proactively reduce SLO burn to prevent repeat incidents
  • •Serve as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents; lead customer-impacting incident response and post-incident reviews
  • •Contribute to design docs and code reviews; influence feature design to ensure production scalability and operability

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 94,025 - 112,830 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years engineering experience, with 4+ years in SRE/CRE/production engineering; customer reliability engineering experience preferred
  • •Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)
  • •Experience leading a team, mentoring engineers, and acting as a force-multiplier
  • •Experience operating multi-tenant systems in production
  • •Experience designing and implementing SLOs
Skills:KubernetesHelmTerraformJsonnetGoPythonJavaLinuxNetworkingObservabilityIncident Response
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KubernetesHelmTerraformJsonnetGoPythonJavaLinuxAWSGCPAzurePostgreSQLObservabilitySREMulti-tenant

Company Brief

Grafana Labs
Develops open-source and commercial observability tools, including Grafana for metrics visualization, Loki for log aggregation, and Tempo for tracing, enabling organizations to monitor, analyze, and visualize system performance and telemetry data.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2014
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