Senior Software Engineer – Grafana Databases, Managed Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Managing and enhancing over 100 multi-cloud streaming clusters and associated database infrastructure.

• Identifying and resolving cross-layer failure issues (such as object storage latency, noisy neighbors, control-plane bottlenecks, and query performance regressions).

• Crafting safe upgrade and rollout strategies on a large scale.

• Advancing observability, automation, and operational ergonomics.

• Collaborating closely with database and platform teams to ensure secure scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance.

• Engaging directly with the behavior of distributed systems, Kubernetes scheduling dynamics, storage engines, and compression trade-offs.

• Acting as a primary escalation point and being on-call for relevant incidents.

• Managing relationships with all system vendors, including WarpStream Labs and others.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of engineering experience, including significant time in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems roles.

• Experience in operating distributed systems in production environments (for instance, streaming systems, analytical databases, and large-scale storage backends). Examples include Kafka, Redpanda, WarpStream, Postgres, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Cassandra.

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes within AWS, GCP, or Azure, along with familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (such as Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).

• Solid grasp of distributed systems design and large-scale system trade-offs.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go is preferred, but not mandatory).

• Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and performance/scaling behavior.

• Experience in participating in blameless incident response and producing high-quality post-incident reviews.

• Excellent communicator capable of collaborating across teams and working independently.

• Curious, pragmatic, action-oriented, and kind (this is essential!).

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture.

• Scaling Organization – Engage in meaningful work within a high-growth, continually evolving environment.

• Transparent Communication – Anticipate open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.

• Innovation-Driven – Enjoy autonomy and support to produce exceptional work and experiment with new ideas.

• Open Source Roots – Founded on community-driven values that influence our work culture.

• Empowered Teams – A culture of high trust and low ego that prioritizes outcomes over appearances.

• Career Growth Pathways – Clearly defined opportunities for career advancement and development.

• Approachable Leadership – Transparent executives who are engaged, visible, and relatable.

• Passionate People – Become part of a team of intelligent, supportive individuals who are deeply committed to their work.

• In-Person Onboarding - We aim for you to thrive from day one alongside your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about our operations and methodologies.

• Balance is Key - We offer a global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, with 3 days designated as Grafana Shutdown Days to ensure the team can truly disconnect.