Senior Software Engineer – Grafana Databases, Managed Services

Grafana Labs

Senior Engineer managing production-critical streaming infrastructure for Grafana Cloud. Working on multicloud systems ensuring reliability, scaling, and operational excellence.

Posted 4/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £91,755 - £110,106 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Operating and evolving multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure
Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes
Designing upgrade and rollout strategies at scale
Improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics
Collaborating with database and platform teams on scaling and performance

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of engineering experience in SRE, platform engineering, or distributed systems roles
Experience operating distributed systems in production
Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet)
Proficient in at least one programming language (Go preferred)
Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, and cloud storage
Experience in blameless incident response and post-incident reviews
Clear communicator capable of collaboration across teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Equity
Bonuses (if applicable)
30 days of annual leave
Company-funded AI tools usage budget
In-person onboarding
Global culture of collaboration and shared purpose
Career growth pathways

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesAWSGCPAzureinfrastructure-as-codeHelmTerraformJsonnetGoLinux

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationblameless incident responsepost-incident reviews