Staff Software Engineer (Grafana Cloud k6)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Grafana Cloud k6): Building and operating large-scale distributed performance testing systems with an accent on reliability, availability, and operational excellence. Focus on defining SLIs/SLOs, driving DevOps/SRE practices, guiding architectural decisions, and scaling cross-team engineering standards.

Location: Remote in UK time zones

Salary: GBP 103,958 - 124,750

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first open-source company building observability tools like Grafana Cloud k6 for performance testing at scale.

What you will do

• Build and scale operational excellence by defining standards and coaching teams on reliability and availability.
• Drive DevOps/SRE practices including incident response, on-call, runbooks, alerting, observability, and release management.
• Establish SLIs/SLOs, error budgets to guide engineering trade-offs and prioritization.
• Provide visibility into system health via operational metrics and reliability reporting.
• Guide design, development, and operation of large-scale distributed cloud systems.
• Influence product direction through design reviews, architectural discussions, and cross-team collaboration.
• Share knowledge via documentation and technical communication.

Requirements

• Strong experience with DevOps/SRE practices, operating production systems at scale
• Strong programming background in modern languages (Python, Go primary)
• Experience designing, building, operating large-scale distributed systems
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering (incident management, observability, failure modes)
• Experience with test automation including performance and functional testing
• Ability to influence via technical communication, reviews, collaboration
• Strong interpersonal skills, work across teams
• Familiarity with modern software engineering processes
• Self-driven, comfortable with autonomy and ambiguity

Nice to have

• Experience with containerized/cloud-native systems (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Grafana stack)
• Experience with Python, Go, JavaScript, Jsonnet
• Building/operating event-driven or asynchronous systems
• Defining/applying SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, reliability metrics
• Interest/experience in testing frameworks or developer tooling

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote global culture with collaboration and shared purpose.
• High-growth environment with autonomy, transparency, and trust.
• Open-source roots, empowered teams, career growth pathways.
• 30 days annual leave plus shutdown days; comply with local legislation.
• AI coding assistants with company budget; access to frontier models.
• In-person onboarding for new hires.