# Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Sweden | Remote

**Company**: Grafana Labs
**Location**: Sweden (Remote)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: SEK 878,578 - SEK 1,054,294
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to focus on database reliability engineering for their Grafana Cloud platform. The successful candidate will work on building and operating large-scale databases, specifically Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope, which are used by high-SLA customers across various regions and cloud providers.

## Responsibilities

The role involves a combination of building and operating these systems. You will be responsible for writing production code, automation, and product changes to enhance database reliability. Additionally, you will be on-call for high-SLA customers, handling operational tasks, and contributing to incident response and post-incident reviews.

Key responsibilities include:

- Building reliability into the product by writing production code in services, tooling, and codebases like Mimir, Loki, and Tempo.

- Developing automation and platform tooling to remove manual toil and scale reliability practices.

- Leading technical design, authoring design documents, reviewing others' designs, and shaping feature development for scalability and operability.

- Defining and evolving per-tenant SLOs and reliability models.

- Improving observability and alerting to detect problems proactively.

- Acting as a technical escalation point for complex customer environments and leading incident response.

- Mentoring engineers and promoting reliability practices across teams.

## Requirements

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, particularly with distributed systems in production.

- Strong production software skills, preferably in an object-oriented language.

- Deep understanding of distributed systems, including performance, scaling, and failure modes.

- Experience with multi-tenant systems on Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Helm.

- Hands-on experience with SLOs and incident response.

- Staff-level technical leadership experience.

- Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, and cloud storage.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, Prometheus, or similar observability and time-series databases.

- Open-source contributions.

- Customer reliability engineering or customer-facing escalation experience.

## Compensation and Benefits

- The base compensation range for this role in Sweden is SEK 878,578 - SEK 1,054,294.

- Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable), and additional perks.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- SLOs
- incident response
- Linux
- networking
- cloud storage

### Nice to have
- Mimir
- Loki
- Tempo
- Pyroscope
- Prometheus
- open-source contributions
- customer reliability engineering

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