Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Sweden | 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 reliability work across Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope.
  • Own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments.
  • Design and implement automation to scale reliability practices and eliminate toil.
  • Define, review, and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models.
  • Proactively reduce SLO burn and investigate reliability issues before they become 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 customer communications when needed.
  • Contribute to design docs, PR reviews, and code reviews.
  • Influence feature design to improve production scalability, operability, and fault tolerance.
  • Improve monitoring quality, self-healing, alerting, and observability for customer environments.
  • Collaborate with engineering leaders on product strategy, roadmaps, and technical designs.
  • Teach SRE best practices and help teams apply 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.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Helm, Terraform, or Jsonnet.
  • Experience leading technical projects and mentoring other engineers.
  • 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, networking, cloud storage, and scaling concepts.
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience participating in blame-free incident response and writing high-quality PIRs or post-mortems.
  • Ability to reason about performance, scaling, and failure modes.
  • Comfort working with high-autonomy, self-directed engineering teams.
  • Strong ability to partner deeply with product engineering teams.
  • Customer reliability engineering experience is strongly preferred.
  • Intellectual curiosity, transparency, bias for action, and kindness are highly valued.

Benefits

  • Base compensation in Sweden of SEK 878,578 to SEK 1,054,294, depending on level, experience, and skillset.
  • Equity and bonus eligibility, where applicable.
  • 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.
  • Career growth pathways and development opportunities.

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