Senior Software Engineer
Core
Operating and evolving 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure for Grafana Cloud's next-generation database products (Mimir, Loki, and Tempo).
Role type
Senior IC distributed systems engineer (managed services)
Builds
Production-critical streaming infrastructure (WarpStream) and high-volume analytical/storage systems for metrics, logs, and traces.
Domain
Cloud-native observability, distributed systems, streaming data platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Kubernetes, distributed systems design, Linux internals, cloud storage, networking, Go, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Helm/Jsonnet), incident response, SLO definition
Preferred skills
Experience with Kafka, Redpanda, Postgres, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Cassandra
Technologies
WarpStream, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Helm, Jsonnet, Go
Responsibilities
Operating 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters, diagnosing cross-layer failure modes, designing safe upgrade strategies, improving observability and automation, serving as primary escalation point for incidents, partnering with database teams on scaling and performance
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC