Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse that operates a global collaborative culture and a passion for meaningful work. As a Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services, you will operate at both the system and team level, helping shape how we run and evolve shared database infrastructure while remaining deeply hands-on in production.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful time in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems roles.
- Experience with high-throughput streaming systems, analytical or storage backends, or large-scale database infrastructure.
- Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
- Experience leading or driving complex technical efforts, even without formal management responsibilities.
- Ability to influence technical direction and align teams around reliability improvements.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems failure modes in multi-cloud environments.
- Proficiency in at least one systems-oriented language (Go 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 communicator who can collaborate across teams and work autonomously.
- Intellectually curious, transparent, action-oriented, and kind.
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 30 days annual leave
- 3 days annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
- Access to modern AI coding assistants