Staff Software Engineer (Grafana Cloud k6)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Grafana Cloud k6): Building and scaling a strong culture of operational excellence and mature DevOps/SRE practices for performance testing products with an accent on improving reliability, availability, and operational ownership. Focus on defining standards, coaching teams, and driving the design, development, and evolution of large-scale, distributed cloud systems.

Location: Remote (Canada, Canadian time zones)

Salary: CAD 186,368 – CAD 223,642

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source product company specializing in observability tools, including the Grafana LGTM Stack for metrics, logs, and traces, used by over 3,000 companies globally.

What you will do

• Build and scale a strong culture of operational excellence by defining standards and coaching teams on reliability and availability.
• Drive mature DevOps/SRE practices, including incident response, on-call readiness, runbooks, alerting, and release/change management.
• Establish and utilize reliability frameworks such as SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to guide prioritization and engineering trade-offs.
• Provide visibility into system health through clear operational metrics and reliability reporting.
• Guide teams in the design, development, evolution, and operation of large-scale, distributed cloud systems.
• Influence product and system direction through design reviews, architectural discussions, and cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

• Strong experience with DevOps/SRE practices, including operating and evolving production systems at scale.
• Strong programming background in a modern language (Python and Go preferred).
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering concepts (e.g., incident management, observability, and failure modes).
• Experience with test automation, including performance and functional testing.
• Ability to influence engineering practices through clear technical communication, reviews, and collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with containerized and cloud-native systems (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
• Familiarity with observability tooling and platforms (e.g., the Grafana stack).
• Experience working with Python, Go, JavaScript and/or Jsonnet.
• Experience building or operating event-driven or asynchronous systems.
• Experience defining or applying SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, or reliability metrics.
• Interest in, or experience with, building testing frameworks or developer tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote, global culture, bringing together talent from around the world.
• Opportunity to tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, innovation-driven environment.
• Transparent communication, open decision-making, and empowered teams with a high-trust, low-ego culture.
• Access to modern AI coding assistants with a company-funded usage budget.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including reserved Grafana Shutdown Days.
• In-person onboarding for new Grafanistas.