Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services | Uk | Remote

Grafanalabs

United Kingdom
Remote
High-throughput streaming systems experience
Kubernetes in aws, gcp, or azure
Infrastructure-as-code tooling
Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure, diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes

Job Summary

  • Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure, diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes.
  • Design safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale, improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics.
  • Partner closely with database and platform teams to ensure safe scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance.

Matching Summary

Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure, diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • High-throughput streaming systems experience
  • Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Infrastructure-as-code tooling
  • Distributed systems failure modes
  • Systems-oriented language proficiency (Go preferred)
  • Linux internals and networking knowledge
  • Blameless incident response

Nice-to-have

  • Independent attitude and good communication
  • Intellectually curious and transparent
  • Action-oriented and kind

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience
  • SRE, platform, production, or infrastructure engineering experience
  • Experience with high-volume analytical or storage systems
  • Experience leading complex technical efforts
  • Ability to influence technical direction
  • Working knowledge of cloud storage and performance/scaling behavior
  • Clear communicator and autonomous worker

Work Rights

Not specified

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