Senior Software Engineer – Grafana Databases, Managed Services

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

📋 Description

• Managing and advancing over 100 multi-cloud streaming clusters along with their 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 secure upgrade and rollout strategies at scale.

• Enhancing observability, automation, and operational efficiency.

• Collaborating closely with database and platform teams to guarantee safe 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 pertinent incidents.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of engineering experience, including significant exposure to SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or roles involving distributed systems.

• Experience in operating distributed systems in a production environment (for instance, streaming systems, analytical databases, or 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.).

• A solid grasp of distributed systems design and the trade-offs associated with large-scale systems.

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

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

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

• A clear communicator capable of collaborating across teams and working independently.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• All positions come with Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), providing every team member with a stake in Grafana Labs' success.

• We have a global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.

• 3 days of your annual leave allocation are designated for Grafana Shutdown Days, allowing the team to fully disconnect.

• Opportunities for professional development.