Staff Engineer, SRE & Distributed Systems — Remote

Grafana

United States

Remote

USD 123,000 - 147,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own reliability across Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope. You’ll write production code, drive SRE practices, and mentor teams while on-call for high-SLA customers.

This remote role emphasizes cross-cloud operations and scalable reliability at scale. You’ll partner with product engineering to shape architecture, define SLOs, and improve observability across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a strong emphasis on blameless post-mortems and open-source

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Distributed systems in production.
  • Experience with multi-tenant cloud-native systems.
  • On-call for production systems.
  • Strong production software skills in an OO language.
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes in AWS/GCP/Azure.
  • Experience with IaC (Terraform/Helm/Jsonnet).
  • Ability to design and implement SLOs.

Responsibilities

  • Build reliability into the product by writing production-grade code.
  • Develop automation and platform tooling to scale reliability.
  • Lead technical design and review of features for operability.
  • Own the SLO framework and reliability models per tenant.
  • Improve observability and alerting to reduce customer-impacting incidents.
  • Be on-call for high-SLA customers and lead incident responses.
  • Mentor engineers and influence cross-team reliability practices.

Skills

Distributed systems
SRE / Incidents
Staff-level leadership
Linux internals
Kubernetes
Multi-cloud
SLO framework
On-call experience

Tools

Terraform
Helm
Jsonnet
Prometheus
Mimir
Loki
Tempo

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own reliability across Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope. You’ll write production code, drive SRE practices, and mentor teams while on-call for high-SLA customers.

This remote role emphasizes cross-cloud operations and scalable reliability at scale. You’ll partner with product engineering to shape architecture, define SLOs, and improve observability across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a strong emphasis on blameless post-mortems and open-source

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