About the role

Senior Engineer managing multi-cloud streaming infrastructure for Grafana Cloud's databases. Taking ownership of production systems and enhancing reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

Operating and evolving 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure
Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes
Designing safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale
Improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics
Partnering closely with database and platform teams
Working directly with distributed systems behavior, Kubernetes scheduling dynamics, storage engines, compression trade-offs
Serving as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents
Owning the relationship with all system vendors

6+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful time in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems roles.
Experience operating distributed systems in production (e.g., streaming systems, analytical databases).
Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred, but not required).
Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and performance/scaling behavior.
Experience participating in blameless incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews.
Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams and work autonomously.
Curious, pragmatic, action-oriented, and kind.