Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services | Spain | 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 eliminate cross-layer failure modes affecting latency, scalability, and reliability.
  • Design safe upgrade and rollout strategies across large production environments.
  • 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 incident response.
  • Own vendor relationships with system providers such as WarpStream Labs.
  • Review and define SLOs, and reduce error budgets through monitoring, automation, and system design improvements.
  • Participate in design reviews, PR reviews, automation, tooling, code improvements, and post-incident reviews.

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; Go is preferred but not required.
  • 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.
  • Curious, pragmatic, action-oriented, and kind.
  • Experience with systems such as Kafka, Redpanda, WarpStream, Postgres, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Cassandra is a plus.
  • Remote applicants must live in Spain time zones only at this time.

Benefits

  • Base salary range in Spain: EUR 82,988 to EUR 99,586.
  • Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • Bonus eligibility, if applicable.
  • Remote-first, 100% global work environment.
  • Company-funded access to modern AI coding assistants and frontier models.
  • 30 days of annual leave, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding with new team members.
  • Career growth pathways and development opportunities.

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