Staff Databases SRE: Reliability at Scale (Remote)

Jobicy; United States; A distancia; USD 170.000 - 230.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Grafana Labs is a fully remote company seeking a Staff Software Engineer to keep Grafana Cloud systems reliable at scale. You’ll own SLOs, design for multi-tenant environments, and lead cross-team reliability initiatives across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

You will write production-grade code, build automation, and mentor engineers, ensuring observability and incident response are top priorities for globally distributed services.

Formación

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including building and owning distributed systems in production.
• Strong production software skills, ideally in at least one object-oriented language.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems: performance, scaling and failure modes.
• Experience running multi-tenant systems at scale on Kubernetes in AWS, GCP or Azure, with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Helm or Jsonnet.
• Hands-on experience Designing and implementing SLOs.
• Experience being on call for production systems and writing blameless post-incident reviews.
• Staff-level technical leadership: driving cross-team projects and setting technical direction.
• Knowledge of Linux internals, networking and cloud storage.

Responsabilidades

• Build reliability into the product by writing production code in services and tooling to make databases more resilient and scalable.
• Create automation and platform tooling to reduce toil and standardize reliability across regions and cloud providers.
• Lead design by authoring design docs, reviewing others’ designs and PRs for scalable, operable features.
• Own the SLO framework and evolve per-tenant reliability models; use incident learnings to fix issues.
• Improve observability and alerting to detect problems before customers and reduce noise.
• Be on call for highest-SLA customers, lead incident response and write blameless post-incident reviews.
• Handle on-call operational work including investigations, incident actions, tuning, and turning recurring issues into fixes.
• Mentor engineers, propagate reliability practices, and collaborate with leadership on roadmaps.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

On-call experience

Leadership

Linux internals

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Jsonnet

AWS

GCP

Azure

Descripción del empleo

Grafana Labs is a fully remote company seeking a Staff Software Engineer to keep Grafana Cloud systems reliable at scale. You’ll own SLOs, design for multi-tenant environments, and lead cross-team reliability initiatives across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

You will write production-grade code, build automation, and mentor engineers, ensuring observability and incident response are top priorities for globally distributed services.