Senior Software Engineer – Grafana Databases, Managed Services

Role Overview

• Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure.
• Diagnose and eliminate cross-layer failure modes.
• Design safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale.
• Improve observability, automation, and operational ergonomics.
• Partner with database and platform teams for scaling and partitioning.
• Work with distributed systems behavior, Kubernetes scheduling, and storage engines.
• Serve as a primary escalation point and on-call for incidents.

Requirements

• 6+ years of engineering experience, including SRE, platform engineering, or distributed systems roles.
• Experience operating distributed systems in production like Kafka, Postgres, or Cassandra.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems design and scaling trade-offs.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred).
• Familiarity with Linux internals, networking, and cloud storage.
• Experience in blameless incident response.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cassandra
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Postgres
• Go

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants
• 30 days annual leave
• 3 Grafana Shutdown Days for disconnecting
• Open decision-making and regular company-wide updates
• Defined opportunities for career growth
• In-person onboarding for a better start