Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Databases (Distributed Systems)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems): Operating and evolving production-critical streaming and database infrastructure for Grafana Cloud with an accent on reliability, scalability, and multi-cloud operational excellence. Focus on diagnosing cross-layer failure modes, designing safe rollout strategies, and optimizing high-throughput distributed systems.

Location: Remote (Must be based in German time zones)

Salary: EUR 97,034 - 116,440

Company

hirify.global is the company behind the open observability cloud, focused on open source, open standards, and scalable managed platforms.

What you will do

• Operate and evolve 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters (WarpStream) and related database infrastructure.
• Diagnose and eliminate cross-layer failure modes, including object storage latency and control-plane bottlenecks.
• Design and execute safe upgrade and rollout strategies for production systems at scale.
• Improve observability, automation, and operational ergonomics for the Managed Services squad.
• Collaborate with database and platform teams to optimize scaling, partitioning, and query performance.
• Act as a primary escalation point and manage on-call responsibilities for critical incidents.

Requirements

• 6+ years of engineering experience in SRE, platform engineering, or distributed systems roles.
• Proven experience operating distributed systems in production (e.g., Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, or similar).
• Strong Kubernetes expertise across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Helm, Terraform, or Jsonnet.
• Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking, and cloud storage scaling behavior.
• Must be living in German time zones.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in Go programming language.
• Experience using modern AI coding assistants in a professional workflow.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote-first global culture with high autonomy and transparency.
• Equity ownership through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days, including 3 mandatory company shutdown days.
• Company-funded budget for frontier AI models and coding assistants.
• In-person onboarding process for new hires.