Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud K6 | Germany | Remote

Grafana Labs

Germany
Base: eur 109,709 - eur 131,651; bonus/equity: equ...
Fully remote (within germany time zones)
Designing large-scale distributed systems
Strong sre practices experience
Defining slis/slos and error budgets
Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Grafana Cloud k6 team, which focuses on performance testing products. The role requires expertise in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with an emphasis on reliability engineering practices

Job Summary

  • The role focuses on establishing a cross-team culture of engineering excellence by setting standards for reliability and operational ownership.
  • Candidates will guide teams in designing large-scale distributed cloud systems used for performance testing at scale with millions of requests per second.
  • Grafana Labs offers a remote-first global culture with heavy investment in developer productivity including company-funded AI coding assistants.

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Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Grafana Cloud k6 team, which focuses on performance testing products. The role requires expertise in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with an emphasis on reliability engineering practices.

Salary

Base: EUR 109,709 - EUR 131,651; Bonus/Equity: Equity and bonus if applicable; Benefits: Other benefits listed on careers page

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Designing large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong SRE practices experience
  • Defining SLIs/SLOs and error budgets
  • Incident management and PIRs
  • Hands-on coding in Python or Go

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with containerized systems
  • Familiarity with Grafana stack
  • Event-driven system architecture
  • AI-assisted development workflow
  • Open source community contribution

Key Requirements

  • Strong programming background in modern languages
  • Experience operating production systems at scale
  • Self-driven ability to work with autonomy

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