Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Germany | Remote

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - SRE to enhance the reliability of their Cloud databases for high-SLA customers. The role involves close collaboration with product engineering squads, designing automation for reliability practices, and leading incident response efforts.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 8+ years engineering experience, 4+ in SRE/CRE/production engineering
• Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Strong technical leadership experience
• Experience operating multi-tenant systems in production
• Experience designing and implementing SLOs
• Experience with one or more programming languages
• Experience with Linux operating systems internals
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to reason about performance, scaling, and failure modes
• Comfortable working within an engineering team

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with product engineering squads
• Own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments
• Design and implement automation to scale reliability practices
• Ensure customers meet SLO targets
• Define and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models
• Proactively reduce SLO burn to prevent repeat incidents
• Serve as primary escalation point and on-call for incidents
• Lead customer-impacting incident response and post-incident reviews
• Contribute to design docs and code reviews
• Influence feature design for scalability and operability
• Build automation to eliminate toil
• Improve alert quality and reduce noisy escalations

Skills

Relocation