Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services | Germany | Remote

Requirements:

• 6+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful time in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems roles.
• Experience operating distributed systems in production (e.g., streaming systems, analytical databases, large-scale storage backends). Examples of these include Kafka, Redpanda, WarpStream, Postgres, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or Cassandra.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems design and large-scale system trade-offs.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred, but not required).
• Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and performance/scaling behavior.
• Experience participating in blameless incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews.
• Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams and work autonomously.
• Curious, pragmatic, action-oriented, and kind (this is important!).

What You'll Be Doing:

• Operating and evolving 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure.
• Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes (e.g., object storage latency, noisy neighbors, control-plane bottlenecks, query performance regressions, etc.).
• Designing safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale.
• Improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics.
• Partnering closely with database and platform teams to ensure safe scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance.
• Working directly with distributed systems behavior, Kubernetes scheduling dynamics, storage engines, compression trade-offs, etc.
• Serving as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents.
• Owning the relationship with all system vendors, including WarpStream Labs and others.
• As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

Perks & Benefits:

• Base compensation range for this role is EUR 97,034 - EUR 116,448.
• Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits.
• All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.