Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Germany | Remote

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments
• ▹Design and implement automation to scale reliability practices
• ▹Define and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models, proactively reduce SLO burn
• ▹Serve as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents
• ▹Lead customer-impacting incident response and post-incident reviews
• ▹Contribute to design docs and code reviews, influence feature design for scalability
• ▹Build automation to eliminate toil and improve alert quality

Requirements

• ▹8+ years of engineering experience, 4+ in SRE/CRE/production engineering
• ▹Strong Kubernetes experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure
• ▹Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet)
• ▹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)
• ▹Knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and scaling
• ▹Experience calmly participating in blame-free incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits
• ▹100% remote, global culture across 40+ countries
• ▹Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants
• ▹30 days of annual leave, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
• ▹Germany base compensation range: €109,709 - €131,651

About the company

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, building Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform. More than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers - including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce - trust Grafana Labs to ensure the reliability of their systems. It's a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.