Staff Software Engineer – Grafana Cloud, k6

📋 Description

• Cultivate and enhance a robust culture of operational excellence by establishing standards and mentoring teams to take ownership of reliability and availability.

• Implement advanced DevOps/SRE methodologies, including incident response and post-incident reviews, on-call preparedness, runbooks, alerting, observability, and management of releases and changes.

• Create reliability frameworks such as Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets, utilizing them to steer prioritization and engineering decisions.

• Offer insights into system health through transparent operational metrics and reliability reporting.

• Assist teams in the design, development, evolution, and maintenance of large-scale, distributed cloud infrastructures.

• Shape product and system trajectories through design evaluations, architectural discussions, and cross-team collaboration.

• Disseminate knowledge through clear, high-quality documentation and technical communication—internally and, when appropriate, externally—to empower teams in building and managing systems more efficiently.

• As the reliability foundation advances, expand into broader application and product development leadership, contributing architectural and technical expertise beyond operational concerns.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience with DevOps/SRE practices, including the operation and evolution of production systems at scale.

• Solid programming expertise in a modern language (Python and Go are preferred, but prior experience is not mandatory).

• Experience in designing, constructing, and managing large-scale distributed systems.

• Profound understanding of reliability engineering principles (e.g., incident management, observability, and failure modes).

• Experience with test automation, including performance and functional testing methodologies.

• Capability to influence engineering practices through effective technical communication, reviews, and collaboration.

• Strong interpersonal abilities and proficiency in collaborating across teams.

• Familiarity with contemporary software engineering processes and delivery methodologies.

• Self-motivated and comfortable working with a significant degree of autonomy and ambiguity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Bonus (if applicable)

• 30 days of annual leave

• Grafana Shutdown Days to provide the team with opportunities to disconnect