Staff Software Engineer, Databases SRE
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Grafana LabsObservability databases
This is a remote opportunity and we are looking for candidates from the UK, Sweden, Spain or Germany., Weekday on-call is 12-hour shifts, Monday to Friday, split between North America and Europe so you cover your local working hours. Weekends are covered by a separate 24-hour rotation. You’ll take a weekend roughly once every six to eight weeks.Full-TimeStaff
SalaryIn Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is €94,025 – €112,830. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPKubernetesAzureTerraformHelmDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building and owning distributed systems in production.
- Bring strong production software skills, ideally in at least one object-oriented language.
- Write clean, tested code and make targeted changes in large open-source codebases.
- Understand distributed-systems performance, scaling, and failure modes.
- Have experience running multi-tenant systems at scale on Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Have experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Helm, or Jsonnet.
- Have hands-on experience designing and implementing SLOs.
- Have experience being on call for production systems and participating in blameless incident response and writing post-incident reviews.
- Demonstrate staff-level technical leadership, including driving cross-team projects, setting technical direction, and developing other engineers.
- Have working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, and cloud storage.
- Be available for weekday 12-hour on-call shifts during local working hours and a weekend rotation roughly once every six to eight weeks.
Responsibilities
- Write production code in services, tooling, and the Mimir, Loki, and Tempo codebases to make databases more resilient, self-healing, and scalable.
- Build automation and platform tooling to reduce toil and scale reliability practices across regions and cloud providers.
- Author design documents, review designs and pull requests, and shape features for scalability and operability.
- Define and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models, and use SLO burn and incident learnings to address system failure causes.
- Improve observability and alerting so problems are found before they affect customers and escalations are actionable.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for complex customer environments and lead customer-impacting incident response.
- Write blameless post-incident reviews and follow up on incident actions with engineering fixes.
- Investigate customer escalations, tune capacity and configuration, and turn recurring issues into permanent fixes or automation.
- Mentor engineers, promote early adoption of reliability practices, and work with engineering leadership on roadmaps and product strategy.
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