Remote Staff SRE: Scale Observability & Reliability

Grafana

United States

Remote

USD 132,000 - 158,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Equity potential
Remote work (global)
Career growth opportunities
30 days annual leave (Grafana Shutdown

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff SRE to own reliability across Grafana Cloud services (Mimir, Loki, Tempo). You will write production code, build automation, and shape design across multi-cloud Kubernetes environments while on-call for top customers.

The role emphasizes blameless post-mortems, autonomy, and cross-team leadership in a fully remote setting. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in software engineering, strong SRE background, and experience with Kubernetes, Terraform/Helm, and SLO design.

Qualifications

  • Strong background in distributed systems engineering in production.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes across clouds and IaC tooling.
  • Experience designing and owning SLOs and reliability practices.
  • Contributions to open-source projects.

Responsibilities

  • Build reliability into the product through production code and tooling.
  • Create automation and platform tooling to scale reliability.
  • Lead technical design and review feature implementations.
  • Own and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models.
  • Improve observability and alerting to reduce incidents.
  • On-call for high-SLA customers and drive post-incident reviews.
  • Tackle operational on-call work and recurring issues with fixes.
  • Mentor engineers and shape cross-team reliability practices.

Tools

Terraform
Helm

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff SRE to own reliability across Grafana Cloud services (Mimir, Loki, Tempo). You will write production code, build automation, and shape design across multi-cloud Kubernetes environments while on-call for top customers.

The role emphasizes blameless post-mortems, autonomy, and cross-team leadership in a fully remote setting. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in software engineering, strong SRE background, and experience with Kubernetes, Terraform/Helm, and SLO design.

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