Grafana Labs07.05.2026
Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services | Ireland | Remote
Republic of Ireland (Remote)
Обязанности
- 01Operating and evolving 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure
- 02Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes (e.g., object storage latency, noisy neighbors, control-plane bottlenecks, query performance regressions, etc.)
- 03Designing safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale
- 04Improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics
- 05Partnering closely with database and platform teams to ensure safe scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance
- 06Working directly with distributed systems behavior, Kubernetes scheduling dynamics, storage engines, compression trade-offs, etc.
- 07Serving as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents
- 08Owning the relationship with all system vendors, including WarpStream Labs and others
- 09Reviewing and defining SLOs for shared database infrastructure, proactively reducing error budgets through improvements to monitoring, automation, scaling strategies, and system design
- 10Improving the diagnosability of core streaming and database systems in production, where possible
- 11Implementing solutions that ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of high-throughput, multi-cloud infrastructure
- 12Developing fault-tolerant patterns that account for distributed system realities such as storage latency, partition imbalance, noisy neighbors, and control-plane dependencies
- 13Planning and executing safe upgrades and rollouts across dozens of production clusters
- 14Collaborating with database and platform engineering leaders to influence architecture, roadmap priorities, and long-term strategy
- 15Participating in PR review and contributing to design documents, automation, tooling, and code improvements that reduce operational risk
- 16Sharing best practices and distributed systems knowledge with partner teams
- 17Participating in incident response, from investigation through resolution and post-incident reviews (PIR)
Требования
- 016+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful time in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems roles
- 02Experience operating distributed systems in production (e.g., streaming systems, analytical databases, large-scale storage backends)
Условия
- 01Remote opportunity for applicants living in Ireland time zones only
- 02Remote-first company with guidance and regular video calls
- 03Independent attitude and good communication skills are a must
- 04Access to modern AI coding assistants (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro) with company-funded usage budget
- 05On-call component with global hiring to ensure healthy on-call aligned to approximately 12 daylight hours per day
- 06Regular 1:1s with manager and close collaboration with teammates across regions