Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE (DevOps)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE (DevOps): Increasing the reliability of Grafana Cloud databases based on Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope with an accent on high-SLA customer environments and automation. Focus on designing and implementing SLOs, reducing SLO burn, and leading incident response for multi-tenant systems.

Location: Remote (Must be based in the UK, Sweden, Spain or Germany)

Salary: €109,709 - €131,651

Company

hirify.global is the company behind the open observability cloud, founded on the principles of open source, open standards, and a global remote culture.

What you will do

• Partner with product engineering squads to own production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments.
• Design and implement automation to scale reliability practices and eliminate toil.
• Define, evolve, and monitor per-tenant SLOs and reliability models to proactively prevent repeat incidents.
• Lead customer-impacting incident response and conduct high-quality post-incident reviews (PIRs).
• Influence feature design to ensure production scalability and operability.
• Mentor engineers and communicate SRE best practices throughout the development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Must be based in the UK, Sweden, Spain or Germany.
• 8+ years of engineering experience, with 4+ years specifically in SRE, CRE, or production engineering.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and IaC tools like Helm, Terraform, or Jsonnet.
• Proven track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and operating multi-tenant systems in production.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or similar programming languages.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and scaling.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work with a global, collaborative culture.
• Transparent communication, high autonomy, and an innovation-driven environment.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days, including 3 mandatory company shutdown days.
• Defined career growth pathways and approachable leadership.
• In-person onboarding for new hires to facilitate integration.