Staff SRE Engineer — Cloud Databases (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 89,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Job summary

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, seeks a Staff Software Engineer - SRE to boost reliability of Grafana Cloud databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) across AWS, GCP and Azure.

This remote role invites you to partner with product engineering, design scalable systems, define SLOs, lead incident responses, and mentor engineers while advancing automation and observability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years engineering experience, 4+ in SRE/production engineering.
• Strong Kubernetes experience on AWS/GCP/Azure; IaC tooling.
• Experience leading a team of engineers and mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and defining SLOs and reducing budget burn for SLOs.
• Improve observability and reliability of customer environments.
• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Participate in Incident Response and post-incident reviews.

Skills

Kubernetes

SRE/Production engineering

Leadership

Multi-tenant systems

SLO design

Go/Python/Java

Linux internals

Incident response

Autonomy

Tools

Helm

Terraform

Jsonnet

Job description

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, seeks a Staff Software Engineer - SRE to boost reliability of Grafana Cloud databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) across AWS, GCP and Azure.

This remote role invites you to partner with product engineering, design scalable systems, define SLOs, lead incident responses, and mentor engineers while advancing automation and observability.