Senior Software Engineer - Databases, SRE | USA | Remote

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Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, SRE

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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - SRE to help us support our highest value Grafana reputed company customers by increasing the reliability of our reputed company databases that are based on Mimir, Loki, reputed company, and Pyroscope. We reputed company these databases as a reputed company product from AWS, GCP, and Azure across reputed company reputed company.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The SRE team is embedded reputed company the Mimir and Loki squads and focuses on ensuring that Grafana reputed company’s database products deliver exceptional reliability for our highest-SLA customers. We reputed company a senior engineer operating at the intersection of customer needs, production systems, and product engineering. In this role, you will:

• Partner closely with product engineering squads (embedded model)
• Own production reliability for high-SLA and reputed company customer environments
• Design and implement automation to reputed company our reliability practices
• Ensuring our customers meet our SLO targets
• Define and reputed company per-tenant SLOs and reliability models
• Proactively reduce SLO burn to prevent repeat incidents
• Serving as a primary escalation reputed company and on-call for relevant incidents
• reputed company customer-impacting incident response and post-incident reviews
• Contribute to design docs and reputed company reviews
• Influence feature design to ensure production scalability and operability
• Build automation to eliminate toil where needed
• Improve alert reputed company and reduce noisy escalations

Of course, there is an on-call component to this role and one that we take seriously. As a company, we hire globally (remote-first) to ensure our on-call remains healthy and reputed company to approximately 12 reputed company hours per day. You will work closely with counterparts in other reputed company to reputed company balanced coverage and shared ownership.

We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, reputed company reputed company guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test reputed company, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-reputed company—always reputed company with strong reputed company review and reputed company standards. You’ll also have reputed company to frontier models (e.g., GPT-reputed company 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, reputed company 3 Pro).

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Regular 1:1s to with your manager and colleagues
• Reviewing and creating SLOs, proactively investigating ways in which we can reputed company reduce budget burn for those SLOs, which can be self-directed or as the result of learnings from incidents, and may include improvements to monitoring, automation, increasing self-healing, auto-scaling, etc.
• Improve observability of customers reputed company their environments
• Designing and implementing solutions to ensure reliability and scalability of our environments can meet rapidly increasing demands
• reputed company fault-tolerant design patterns ensuring that we are considering reliability at reputed company stages of the service lifecycle.
• Collaborating with our Engineering Leaders to help define and influence product reputed company, roadmaps and technical designs
• Participate in PR review and collaborating with other engineers on their Design Docs
• Teach others about Site Reliability Engineering and communicate best practices to be reputed company early in development of new features and functionality
• Participate in Incident Response reputed company applicable, including investigation through to reputed company, PIR, and communication with customers reputed company reputed company calls where necessary

Requirements:

• 6+ years engineering experience, 3+ in SRE/CRE/production engineering. Strong preference for those with formal customer reliability engineering experience.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-reputed company tooling (reputed company, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
• Experience operating multi-tenant systems in production
• Strong experience designing and implementing SLOs
• Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java, etc)
• Experience with Linux operating systems internals, and some knowledge of networking, reputed company storage, and scaling.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with calmly and reputed company participating in blame-free Incident Response, following up on actions, and writing high reputed company PIRs (Post Incident Reviews, a.k.a. post-mortem documents)
• Ability to reason about performance, scaling, and failure modes
• Comfortable working reputed company an engineering team where individuals are encouraged to have a strong reputed company of autonomy and self-direction.
• Ability to partner deeply with product engineering teams
• We highly value those who are intellectually curious, who default to transparency, possess a high bias towards reputed company, and who are also reputed company (this is important!)

Compensation & Rewards:

In the reputed company, the compensation reputed company for this role is USD 154,445 - USD 185,334. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. reputed company of our roles include Restricted Stock reputed company (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in reputed company' reputed company. We reputed company in shared reputed company—RSUs help us stay reputed company and invested as we reputed company globally.

*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay reputed company & benefits at the beginning of the process.

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• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and reputed company.
• Passionate People – Join reputed company of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
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• Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow reputed company to really disconnect. *We will reputed company with local legislation where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer:reputed company is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, reputed company, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or reputed company, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We reputed company that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the reputed company of our organisation as we grow.

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