Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE (Remote)

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs, the company behind Grafana Cloud, is hiring a staff-level distributed systems engineer for a fully remote role. You will build reliability, lead technical design, and own the SLO framework across multi-tenant SaaS databases like Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope.

You will improve observability, manage incidents with top SLA customers, and mentor engineers while operating in a 100% remote, globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building distributed systems.
• Strong Kubernetes and SLO expertise.
• Staff-level leadership with calm incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build reliability and lead technical design for the platform.
• Own the SLO framework and drive reliability initiatives.
• Improve observability and incident handling across services.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen the on-call program.

Skills

Kubernetes

SLO expertise

Distributed systems

Leadership

Incident response

Linux

Job description

Grafana Labs, the company behind Grafana Cloud, is hiring a staff-level distributed systems engineer for a fully remote role. You will build reliability, lead technical design, and own the SLO framework across multi-tenant SaaS databases like Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope.

You will improve observability, manage incidents with top SLA customers, and mentor engineers while operating in a 100% remote, globally distributed team.