Staff Software Engineer – Grafana Cloud, k6

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

📋 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, which encompass incident response, post-incident reviews, on-call preparedness, runbooks, alerting, observability, and management of releases and changes.

• Create reliability frameworks such as SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, utilizing them to inform prioritization and engineering decisions.

• Ensure transparency regarding system health through comprehensive operational metrics and reliability reports.

• Assist teams in the design, development, evolution, and maintenance of extensive, distributed cloud systems.

• Shape product and system trajectories through design assessments, architectural dialogues, and collaborative efforts across teams.

• Disseminate knowledge via clear, high-quality documentation and technical communication—internally and, when relevant, externally—to aid teams in effectively building and managing systems.

• As the reliability foundation progresses, expand into wider application and product development leadership roles, contributing architectural and technical expertise beyond operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience with DevOps/SRE practices, particularly in managing and evolving production systems at scale.

• Strong programming proficiency in a contemporary language (with Python and Go as primary languages, although prior experience is not mandatory).

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

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

• Experience with test automation, covering both performance and functional testing.

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

• Excellent interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration across teams.

• Familiarity with contemporary software engineering processes and delivery methodologies.

• Proactive and comfortable operating with a significant degree of autonomy and uncertainty.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture

• Scaling Organization

• Transparent Communication

• Innovation-Driven

• Open Source Roots

• Empowered Teams

• Career Growth Pathways

• Approachable Leadership

• Passionate People

• In-Person onboarding

• Balance is Key - 30 days annual leave