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Grafana Labs

Headquartered in New York, New York, Grafana Labs is an IT company specializing in developing accessible, user-friendly, and open-source metric visualization to

Staff Software Engineer – Databases SRE

Location

Germany

Posted

6 days ago

Salary

€109.7K - €131.7K / year

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Staff Software Engineer – Databases SRE

Grafana Labs

• Partner closely with product engineering squads (embedded model) • Own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments • Design and implement automation to scale our reliability practices • Ensuring our customers meet our SLO targets • Define and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models • Proactively reduce SLO burn to prevent repeat incidents • Serve as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents • Lead customer-impacting incident response and post-incident reviews • Contribute to design docs and code reviews • Influence feature design to ensure production scalability and operability • Build automation to eliminate toil where needed • Improve alert quality and reduce noisy escalations

Job Requirements

  • 8+ years engineering experience, 4+ in SRE/CRE/production engineering
  • Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)
  • Experience operating multi-tenant systems in production
  • Strong experience designing and implementing SLOs
  • Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java, etc)
  • Experience with Linux operating systems internals
  • Knowledge of networking, cloud storage, and scaling
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to reason about performance, scaling, and failure modes
  • Comfortable working within an engineering team
  • Ability to partner deeply with product engineering teams
  • Intellectually curious, default to transparency, possess a high bias towards action, and kind

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Bonus (if applicable)
  • 30 days annual leave including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
  • Professional development opportunities
  • 100% Remote, Global Culture
  • Transparent Communication
  • Innovation-Driven
  • Open Source Roots
  • Empowered Teams
  • Career Growth Pathways
  • Approachable Leadership
  • In-Person onboarding

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