Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services | Ireland | Remote

1 month ago
Full-time
Senior
DevOps and Infrastructure
Grafana

Grafana

Grafana is the open observability platform providing analytics, monitoring, and visualization solutions with a focus on user control and cost efficiency.

IT Services
1K-5K
Founded 2014
$535M raised

Description

  • Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure in production.
  • Diagnose and resolve cross-layer failure modes affecting storage, query performance, control planes, and scaling.
  • Design and execute safe upgrade and rollout strategies across production clusters.
  • Improve observability, automation, and operational ergonomics for shared infrastructure.
  • Partner with database and platform teams on scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance.
  • Work directly with distributed systems, Kubernetes scheduling, storage engines, and compression trade-offs.
  • Serve as a primary escalation point and participate in on-call and incident response.
  • Own vendor relationships for the systems and services used by the team.
  • Review code, contribute to design documents, and improve automation and tooling to reduce operational risk.
  • Share distributed systems knowledge and best practices with partner teams.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of engineering experience, including time in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems roles.
  • Experience operating distributed systems in production, such as streaming systems, analytical databases, or large-scale storage backends.
  • Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Helm, Terraform, or Jsonnet.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems design and large-scale system trade-offs.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language, with Go preferred.
  • Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and performance/scaling behavior.
  • Experience participating in blameless incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews.
  • Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams while working autonomously.
  • Applicants must be able to work from Ireland time zones.
  • Experience with systems such as Kafka, Redpanda, WarpStream, Postgres, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Cassandra is relevant and desirable.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of EUR 104,000 to EUR 124,800 in Ireland.
  • Equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all roles.
  • Bonus eligibility, if applicable.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.
  • 3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • 100% remote, global work environment.
  • Company-funded access to AI coding assistants and frontier models within security guidelines.

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