Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services
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Grafana LabsObservability / Infrastructure
Germany (Remote), German time zonesFull-TimeSenior
SalaryEUR 97,034 - EUR 116,440
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPKubernetesAzureGoLinuxTerraformHelmDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 6+ years of engineering experience, including SRE, platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems roles.
- Experience operating distributed systems in production such as Kafka, Redpanda, WarpStream, Postgres, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Cassandra.
- Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Helm, Terraform, or Jsonnet.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems design and large-scale system trade-offs.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred).
- Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and performance scaling.
- Experience with blameless incident response and writing post-incident reviews.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to work autonomously in a remote setting.
Responsibilities
- Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure.
- Diagnose and eliminate cross-layer failure modes including object storage latency, noisy neighbors, and control-plane bottlenecks.
- Design safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale.
- Improve observability, automation, and operational ergonomics for production systems.
- Partner with database and platform teams to ensure safe scaling, partitioning, and query performance.
- Serve as a primary escalation point and participate in on-call rotations.
- Manage relationships with system vendors.
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