Remote Staff SRE: Global Databases & Reliability

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 89,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Remote work

Job summary

Grafana Labs is a fully remote company hiring a Staff Software Engineer to keep Grafana Cloud databases reliable at scale. The role focuses on building and operating multi-tenant SaaS databases like Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope across AWS, GCP and Azure.

You will write production code, create automation, and contribute to SLOs while being on call for the highest-SLA customers. Strong leadership and reliability practices are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, incl. distributed systems in production.
• Strong production software skills in at least one OO language; able to modify large open-source codebases.
• Experience running multi-tenant systems at scale on Kubernetes in cloud environments.
• Hands-on in designing and implementing SLOs and reliability models.

Responsibilities

• Write production code across services to improve reliability, resilience, and scalability.
• Create automation and platform tooling to scale reliability across regions and clouds.
• Lead technical design: write design docs, review PRs, shape scalable features.

Skills

Distributed systems

Production software

Object-oriented programming

Performance and scaling

Linux internals

On-call experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Jsonnet

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Grafana Labs is a fully remote company hiring a Staff Software Engineer to keep Grafana Cloud databases reliable at scale. The role focuses on building and operating multi-tenant SaaS databases like Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope across AWS, GCP and Azure.

You will write production code, create automation, and contribute to SLOs while being on call for the highest-SLA customers. Strong leadership and reliability practices are essential.