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

3 hours, 2 minutes ago
United Kingdom
Full-time
Senior
Database Administrator
DevOps and Infrastructure
AWS Azure Cassandra ClickHouse GCP Go Grafana Helm Kafka Kubernetes Linux PostgreSQL Snowflake Terraform
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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
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Description

  • Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure in production.
  • Diagnose and eliminate cross-layer failure modes affecting storage, control planes, query performance, and scaling.
  • Design safe upgrade and rollout strategies across large-scale production environments.
  • Improve observability, automation, and operational ergonomics for core systems.
  • Partner with database and platform teams on scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and performance.
  • Work with distributed systems behavior, Kubernetes scheduling, storage engines, and compression trade-offs.
  • Serve as a primary escalation point and participate in on-call coverage for incidents.
  • Own relationships with system vendors, including WarpStream Labs and other providers.
  • Review pull requests and contribute to design documents, tooling, automation, and code improvements.
  • Participate in incident investigation, resolution, 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 trade-offs.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language; Go is preferred.
  • Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and performance/scaling behavior.
  • Experience with blameless incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews.
  • Ability to communicate clearly, collaborate across teams, and work autonomously.
  • Preferred experience with systems such as Kafka, Redpanda, WarpStream, Postgres, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Cassandra.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of GBP 91,755 to GBP 110,106 in the UK.
  • Equity included as part of the compensation package.
  • Bonus eligibility, if applicable.
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all roles.
  • 100% remote, global working environment.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • Company-funded access to modern AI coding assistants and frontier models within security guidelines.
  • In-person onboarding for new hires.

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