Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Spain | Remote

3 months, 1 week ago
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

  • Partner closely with embedded product engineering squads to support cloud database reliability.
  • Own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments.
  • Design and implement automation to scale reliability practices and reduce toil.
  • Define, review, and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models.
  • Proactively investigate and reduce SLO burn to prevent repeat incidents.
  • Serve as a primary escalation point and participate in on-call and incident response.
  • Lead customer-impacting incident investigations, post-incident reviews, and follow-up actions.
  • Contribute to design documents, pull request reviews, and product design decisions.
  • Improve observability, alert quality, self-healing, and auto-scaling in production systems.
  • Teach Site Reliability Engineering practices and communicate them early in feature development.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years in SRE, CRE, or production engineering.
  • Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Helm, Terraform, or Jsonnet.
  • Strong technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers and leading projects.
  • Experience operating multi-tenant systems in production.
  • Strong experience designing and implementing SLOs.
  • Experience with one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, or Java.
  • Knowledge of Linux internals plus networking, cloud storage, and scaling concepts.
  • Experience with incident response, including writing high-quality PIRs or post-mortems.
  • Ability to reason about performance, scaling, and failure modes.
  • Comfort working with high autonomy and self-direction in an engineering team.
  • Strong collaboration skills for partnering deeply with product engineering teams.
  • Preferred: formal customer reliability engineering experience.
  • Preferred: intellectually curious, transparent, action-oriented, and kind.

Benefits

  • Base compensation in Spain of €94,025 - €112,830.
  • Equity is included in the compensation package.
  • Bonus eligibility may apply.
  • 100% remote work with a global team.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.
  • 3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding for new hires.
  • Country-specific pay range and benefits for other locations.
  • Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

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