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
Ireland
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
€117.6K - €141.1K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer – Databases SRE
Grafana Labs
• Partner closely with product engineering squads • Own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments • Design and implement automation to scale reliability practices • Ensure customers meet 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 for 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 preference for those with formal customer reliability engineering experience.
- Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
- Strong experience with technical leadership.
- 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.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with calmly participating in blame-free Incident Response.
- Ability to reason about performance, scaling, and failure modes.
- Comfortable working within an engineering team where individuals are encouraged to have a strong sense of autonomy and self-direction.
- 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)
- Competitive annual leave policy of 30 days
- Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants
- In-person onboarding
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