Staff Software Engineer – Databases SRE

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

📋 Description

• Assist Grafana Cloud's most valuable customers by ensuring the reliability of their databases.

• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams.

• Take ownership of production reliability for environments with high service level agreements (SLAs).

• Design and implement automated processes to enhance reliability practices.

• Ensure that customers achieve their service level objective (SLO) targets.

• Lead incident response efforts and conduct reviews.

• Contribute to the creation of design documentation and participate in code reviews.

• Develop automation solutions to minimize repetitive tasks.

• Enhance the quality of alerts and reduce the number of escalations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of engineering experience, with at least 4 years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Reliability Engineering (CRE), or production engineering.

• Proficient in Kubernetes, particularly within AWS, GCP, or Azure environments.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.

• Proven experience in technical leadership roles.

• Experience in operating multi-tenant systems within production settings.

• Strong background in designing and implementing service level objectives (SLOs).

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Java).

• Knowledge of Linux internals.

• Exceptional problem-solving abilities.

• Experience in incident response and conducting post-incident reviews.

• Ability to analyze performance, scalability, and potential failure modes.

• Capable of working autonomously within an engineering team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Bonus (if applicable).

• 30 days of annual leave.

• Grafana Shutdown Days.

• In-person onboarding.