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Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Ireland | Remote

Software Engineer • Principal • Remote • Full-time Ireland Republic of Ireland, Ireland

Grafana Labs is looking for a Staff Software Engineer - SRE to join the team responsible for the reliability of its Cloud database products (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope), owning production reliability for high-SLA customer environments.

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

Intellectual curiosity, bias towards transparencyHigh bias towards actionKindness and a collaborative attitudeAutonomy and self-direction, deep partnership with product engineering teamsExcellent problem-solving and troubleshooting 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
  • Ireland base compensation range: €117,600 - €141,120

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.

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