Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs
United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving"]

Staff Software Engineer - SRE for Grafana Cloud databases, focused on production reliability of multi-tenant SaaS databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) across AWS, GCP and Azure. Partner with product squads, own high-SLA reliability, design SLOs, reduce toil, lead incident response, and drive scalable observability and automation in a remote, globally distributed team.

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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
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Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | UK | Remote

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Job Summary

Staff Software Engineer - SRE for Grafana Cloud databases, focused on production reliability of multi-tenant SaaS databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) across AWS, GCP and Azure. Partner with product squads, own high-SLA reliability, design SLOs, reduce toil, lead incident response, and drive scalable observability and automation in a remote, globally distributed team.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Regular 1:1s with your manager and colleagues.
  • •Reviewing and creating SLOs, proactively investigating ways to further reduce budget burn for those SLOs, which can be self-directed or from incident learnings.
  • •Improve observability of customers within their environments.
  • •Designing and implementing solutions to ensure reliability and scalability of our environments to meet rapidly increasing demands.
  • •Develop fault-tolerant design patterns ensuring reliability is considered at all stages of the service lifecycle.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years engineering experience, 4+ in SRE/CRE/production engineering with strong preference for formal customer reliability engineering experience.
  • •Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
  • •Strong experience with technical leadership, guiding a team through projects, mentoring other engineers, and acting as a force multiplier.
  • •Experience operating multi-tenant systems in production.
  • •Strong experience designing and implementing SLOs.
Experience:8+ yearsSREProduction engineeringCloud databasesMulti-tenant
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KubernetesAWSGCPAzureHelmTerraformJsonnetGoPythonJavaLinuxNetworkingCloud storageAuto-scalingSLOObservabilityPostgres

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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