Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Spain | Remote
Core
Staff SRE ensuring reliability and scalability of multi-tenant cloud databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) for high-SLA customers on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer - SRE
Builds
Production reliability for Grafana Cloud database products
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Observability / SaaS
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes (AWS/GCP/Azure), Infrastructure-as-Code (Helm/Terraform/Jsonnet), SLO design and management, multi-tenant system operations, Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, Go/Python/Java, incident response, automation design, performance reasoning
Preferred skills
Customer reliability engineering experience, technical leadership, mentoring, fault-tolerant design patterns, observability improvement
Technologies
Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, AWS, GCP, Azure, Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, Linux
Responsibilities
Partner with product engineering squads, own production reliability for high-SLA environments, design automation to scale reliability practices, ensure SLO targets are met, define and evolve per-tenant SLOs, proactively reduce SLO burn, serve as primary escalation point and on-call, lead incident response and post-incident reviews, contribute to design docs and code reviews, influence feature design for scalability, build automation to eliminate toil, improve alert quality
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
