Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud k6

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Salary109,709 - 131,651 EUR per year
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Required Skills
PythonCloud ComputingKubernetesGoDevOpsDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Strong experience with DevOps/SRE practices, including operating and evolving production systems at scale
  • Strong programming background in a modern language (Python and Go are primary, but prior experience is not required)
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong understanding of reliability engineering concepts (e.g. incident management, observability, and failure modes)
  • Experience with test automation, including performance and functional testing
  • Ability to influence engineering practices through clear technical communication, reviews, and collaboration
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across teams
  • Familiarity with modern software engineering processes and delivery practices
  • Self-driven and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale a strong culture of operational excellence by defining standards and coaching teams to own reliability and availability.
  • Drive mature DevOps/SRE practices, including incident response and PIRs, on-call readiness, runbooks, alerting, observability, and release/change management.
  • Establish reliability frameworks such as SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and use them to guide prioritization and engineering trade-offs.
  • Provide visibility into system health through clear operational metrics and reliability reporting.
  • Guide teams in the design, development, evolution, and operation of large-scale, distributed cloud systems.
  • Influence product and system direction through design reviews, architectural discussions, and cross-team collaboration.
  • Share knowledge through clear, high-quality documentation and technical communication.
  • Grow into broader application and product development leadership as the reliability foundation matures.
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