Staff Software Engineer - Platform, SysEng

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Grafana LabsObservability, Cloud Infrastructure
USA - Central, USA - East, EST, CSTFull-TimeStaff
Salary$175k-$210k per year
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Job Details

Required Skills
PythonKubernetesGoMicroservicesDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Proven delivery of large distributed systems.
  • Demonstrable experience in system design with focus on latency, consistency, availability, and scaling.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures (microservices, containers, Kubernetes, IaC).
  • Expertise in reliability and performance ownership (SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning).
  • Excellent coding skills in Go, or experience with Python, C, C++, or Rust.
  • Experience operating complex systems that span multiple teams.
  • Comfortable using AI-powered developer tools within a team workflow.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and align cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Reduce new region build timelines to meet customer demands.
  • Manage infrastructure and capacity to support scalability of the Grafana Cloud platform.
  • Own the full life cycle of code, including writing design docs, developer feedback integration, and testing.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the health of production services.
  • Drive reliability and performance ownership by defining SLOs/SLIs and conducting capacity planning.
  • Align cross-functional stakeholders and set priorities in a remote-first environment.
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