Staff Software Engineer (Databases, Managed Services)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Grafana Databases, Managed Services): Operating and evolving shared production-critical infrastructure powering Grafana Cloud’s database products (Mimir, Loki, Tempo) with an accent on high-throughput multi-cloud streaming clusters (WarpStream) and analytical/storage systems. Focus on diagnosing cross-layer failure modes, designing safe upgrade strategies, improving observability and automation, and leading reliability initiatives at massive scale.

Location: Remote (Spain time zones only)

Salary: EUR 94,025 - 112,830

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first open-source company helping thousands of enterprises manage observability with Grafana Cloud and Enterprise Stack.

What you will do

• Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud WarpStream clusters and related database infrastructure for metrics, logs, and traces ingestion.
• Diagnose and eliminate failure modes like object storage latency, noisy neighbors, and query regressions.
• Design safe upgrade, rollout, and migration strategies at scale.
• Improve observability, automation, and operational ergonomics.
• Partner with database and platform teams on scaling, partitioning, and performance.
• Serve as escalation point, handle on-call, and own vendor relationships.
• Lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive SLOs and best practices.

Requirements

• Located in Spain time zones
• 8+ years engineering experience in SRE, platform, production, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Experience with high-throughput streaming (Kafka, Redpanda, WarpStream), analytical/storage backends (Postgres, ClickHouse), or large-scale databases.
• Strong Kubernetes in AWS/GCP/Azure; IaC (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet).
• Proficiency in systems language (Go preferred); Linux internals, networking, cloud storage.
• Experience leading complex efforts, incident response, post-mortems.
• Clear communication for remote collaboration across regions.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote global culture with high trust, autonomy, and transparent communication.
• RSUs for all roles, equity ownership, and performance bonus.
• 30 days annual leave plus 3 Grafana Shutdown Days; comply with local laws.
• AI coding assistants with company budget; access to frontier models.
• Balanced on-call aligned to 12 daylight hours; in-person onboarding.
• Career growth, innovation-driven environment, open-source roots.