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Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Spain | Remote
Grafana Labs
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Executive opportunity brief
The decision in one screen
A compact evidence-first read of compensation, flexibility, mobility and what still needs verification. No universal quality score is used.
Fast read
Opportunity DNA
What stands out most is that pay compares strongly with similar current roles. The biggest counterweight is that location rules could change the fit.
Around the 83th percentile within 101 comparable EUR salary observations.
Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
The listing does not make the minimum education or experience threshold clear enough yet.
Sponsorship and relocation support are not clear from the current listing.
Part of the application route can be assessed, but the full external process may contain additional steps.
At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.
This fingerprint summarizes what is clear, constrained or still unanswered in the current listing. It is a reading aid, not an overall job score.
Decision evidence check
4 of 5 core facts stated
This checks whether the listing states the facts that commonly change an employment decision. It measures disclosure completeness, not whether the opportunity is good or bad.
Facts already stated
- Compensation
- Work arrangement
- Advertised location
- Employment type
What to verify next
- Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
Advertised location is not proof of work authorization, sponsorship, or legal eligibility. Unknown information is not a negative score; verify those questions separately.
Decision levers
What could make or break the fit?
Reasons to look closer
- Pay compares strongly with similar current roles: The annualized midpoint is around the 83th percentile among 101 comparable EUR salary observations.
Trade-offs to weigh
- Location rules could change the fit: Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
Questions worth asking before you invest more time
- Confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
- Confirm the actual minimum experience requirement rather than assuming preferred background is mandatory.
- Ask whether visa sponsorship is available before investing significant time in the application.
These questions come from details the listing leaves open. An unanswered point is not treated as a disadvantage.
Opportunity neighborhood
Keep your options open
These live roles sit close enough to this opportunity to make useful comparison points. Look across several employers before deciding what pay, flexibility or access trade-offs you are willing to accept.
Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Ireland | Remote
Grafana Labs · Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, UK
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work arrangement
About 25% higher advertised midpoint
Lead Platform Engineer
Kraken · Manchester, UK
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Same country · Same employment type
Different angle: Different work arrangement
(Senior) Software Engineer – AI (m/f/d) – Remote
MAIA · Berlin
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
About 18% lower advertised midpoint
Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise AI
Spotify · USA
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
Different angle: Different country
This neighborhood is drawn from current inventory in the same broad occupation. Similarity is based on explicit listing facts; missing details do not count against a job.
Role market context
How much current choice is visible around this kind of work?
This compares the vacancy with current High Paid Job inventory in the broad Software engineering roles family. It describes visible choice and disclosure, not future demand or career quality.
200 most recent current roles sampled for the disclosure measures below.
Distinct employers in the bounded current sample, not an estimate of all employers hiring in the market.
Current sampled roles stating at least four of the five Core Decision Facts.
Requires a numeric amount, explicit ISO currency and supported pay period.
Listings with explicit enough remote, hybrid or on-site evidence to classify.
Missing deadline evidence remains unknown and is not interpreted as an open-ended application window.
Currencies with explicit pay evidence in the sample: USD (33) · EUR (14) · GBP (5) · PLN (3). Raw amounts across different currencies are not compared.
This describes current visible High Paid Job inventory in the same broad occupation family. Percentages use a bounded recent sample and are not a forecast, a complete labor-market census or an employer-quality measure.
Constraint opportunity lab
What changes the size of the current opportunity pool?
Each line applies one stricter evidence-based constraint to the same bounded current role-family sample. It helps you see the trade-off in visible choice without deciding which trade-off is right for you.
Counts only affirmative or possible sponsorship evidence, or relocation explicitly offered. Unknown is not treated as no.
A much stricter subset: only listings with explicit worldwide-remote evidence remain.
Uses only roles where a country is known. Roles without country evidence are excluded from this denominator.
Only same-currency opportunities with usable annualized pay enter this comparison. Other currencies are not converted or treated as lower.
Requires amount, explicit ISO currency and a supported pay period. Missing pay evidence remains unknown.
Shows the subset with enough stated evidence for a more informed first comparison.
Counts roles explicitly classified as worldwide remote, region-restricted remote or remote with restrictions still unclear.
Includes roles whose seniority is genuinely unspecified rather than assuming they belong to another level.
These are counterfactual filters over a bounded sample of current HPJ inventory in the same broad occupation family. They show how visible choice changes when one evidence-based constraint is applied; they do not tell you which constraint you should choose or predict hiring outcomes. The calculation uses the 200 most recent current roles from 3347 visible roles in this broad family.
Salary transparency context
Is pay disclosure typical for this kind of role?
This listing states usable structured compensation. About 30% of the bounded current role sample does the same.
Compensation counts only when amount, ISO currency and supported pay period are all known.
Pay disclosure is limited in the current role sample.
This employer’s current visible listings disclose pay materially more often than the current same-role sample.
This compares salary-disclosure behavior in current visible listings. It does not compare raw salary amounts across currencies, infer undisclosed pay as zero, or rate employer quality.
Private offer & negotiation lab
Turn an offer into evidence, not guesswork
Enter an annual base offer and, if you want, your own target. HPJ compares only within one explicit currency and never chooses a target for you.
Negotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.
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Review the full package · 10 terms
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Usable advertised compensation is available.
Variable compensation is mentioned; verify amount, formula, target and eligibility.
Equity or long-term incentive language is mentioned; verify grant type, vesting and valuation basis.
Retirement or pension benefits are mentioned; verify employer contribution and vesting.
Health-benefit language is mentioned; verify coverage, dependants and employee cost.
Paid-leave language is mentioned; verify the exact entitlement and carry-over rules.
A work-arrangement signal is available; verify schedule details before relying on it.
Relocation support not established
Sponsorship not established
A review cycle is mentioned; verify timing and whether compensation can change at that review.
Questions worth taking into the offer conversation
- What retirement or pension contribution does the employer provide?
- What health coverage is included and what costs remain with the employee?
- If relocation is relevant, what expenses, timing and repayment conditions are covered?
- What exact sponsorship or work-authorization conditions apply to this role?
- When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
- Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
Occupation intelligence
What broader career references connect to this role?
HPJ uses broad comparison families for current-market analysis. External taxonomy results are reference candidates for that broad family, not a declaration that this vacancy has been authoritatively classified into a specific occupation.
European occupation references
- software developer
- embedded systems software developer
- industrial mobile devices software developer
- ICT application developer
- IoT developer
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
U.S. occupation references
- Software Developers 15-1252.00
- Computer Programmers 15-1251.00
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15-1253.00
- Computer Systems Analysts 15-1211.00
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 15-1299.08
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Career reference research
Skills worth investigating
Official occupational context, paired with exact phrases visible in this vacancy. It is not a skills test or an applicant-fit score.
ESCO · European occupation
software developer
Usually essential in this ESCO occupation
- perform scientific research
- ICT debugging tools
- engineering principles
- computer programming
- project management
- technical drawings
- define technical requirements
Context-dependent ESCO skills
- JavaScript
- KDevelop
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
- Apache Tomcat
- SQL
O*NET · U.S. occupation
Software Developers
O*NET occupation skills
- Programming
- Critical Thinking
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Active Learning
- Reading Comprehension
- Systems Analysis
- Active Listening
- Complex Problem Solving
Build my private skill preparation brief Your evidence · Practice · Interview questions
Plan how you might demonstrate or investigate occupational skills. These are broad-family reference examples, not confirmed vacancy requirements. Nothing you enter is sent to High Paid Job.
Private to this browser. Up to 20 reference skills; not a qualification assessment or hiring prediction.
Useful next question: Which of these occupational reference skills does the hiring manager actually expect for this specific role, and what evidence would demonstrate them?
These skills belong to one reference occupation selected for HPJ’s broad career family, not a verified classification of this vacancy. Text overlap only means a phrase appears in the available listing text; it does not establish an employer requirement, your proficiency, or a qualification gap. A missing mention is unknown, not a deficit.
Adjacent current roles to investigate
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same seniority band · same employment type · similar work-arrangement evidenceAdjacent-family roles are exploration prompts from current HPJ inventory. They are not inferred qualification matches and they do not imply a promotion path.
Career move map
What sits one step away?
This listing is currently read as Senior / lead. Nearby roles one visible seniority step away can help you judge whether to widen the search, stretch upward or compare the responsibilities more carefully.
Broader-entry direction
AI Agents Developer | Python & APIs | Remote - España
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Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently postedStretch direction
Backend Product Software Engineer
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Juniper Square · Canada, USA
Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently postedThese are live roles one visible seniority step away in the same broad occupation family. They can reveal nearby options, but they are not a guaranteed promotion path and do not account for your personal experience.
Skill bridge
What does this role connect to?
AWS is one of the signals this listing shares with skills appearing often across current Software engineering roles opportunities.
Skills named in this listing
Shared with the current career sample
- AWS Seen in 23 sampled listings
- Azure Seen in 17 sampled listings
- Kubernetes Seen in 36 sampled listings
Combinations also appearing together
- AWS + Kubernetes appeared together in 16 sampled listings
Additional signals in this listing: Google Cloud · Linux · Salesforce · Terraform
Application edge
- If these skills match your background, prepare one concrete example that shows how you used AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud rather than relying on a keyword-only claim.
If the named skills are genuinely transferable in your own experience, the occupation map also points to adjacent current families worth researching: Data & AI roles, Cybersecurity roles, and Product roles. This is exploration context, not a qualification match.
Skill signals come from explicit text mentions. A mention is not automatically a requirement, and absence from the current top-skill list does not make a skill rare or unimportant. The current career comparison draws on 120 sampled listings; 109 contain a recognized skill signal.
Application Decision Lab
Turn the listing into a preparation plan
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AWS
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Azure
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Google Cloud
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Kubernetes
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Linux
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Salesforce
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity
- Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
- Work authorization / sponsorship: If sponsorship or work authorization matters to you, what exact immigration or employer-sponsorship conditions apply to this role?
- Application process: What interview, assessment, portfolio, reference or screening stages are part of the hiring process?
Decision analysis
What the listing really tells you
The headline alone does not tell the whole story for Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Spain | Remote at Grafana Labs. The clearest decision context comes from pay has a useful comparison point, remote flexibility can be weighed properly, and the application route gives a few useful clues.
Pay has a useful comparison point
Among 101 current comparable salaries in EUR, the normalized annual midpoint is around the 83th percentile. This compares advertised pay in the same currency and does not include every element of total compensation.
Remote flexibility can be weighed properly
Location flexibility can be assessed here: Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions, with a Remote Freedom reading of 62/100. One practical limit to notice is geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region..
The application route gives a few useful clues
Provider-mediated application path. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.
Source continuity adds useful context
The opportunity currently has 1 renewable source path across 1 source classes. Multiple independent paths can strengthen continuity, but they are not a substitute for checking the application destination.
How this analysis is assembled
This read combines the structured details currently available for pay, flexibility, qualifications, mobility, application effort and source continuity. Missing facts are left open for you to verify.
Analysis evidence coverage
How much analysis can the current evidence support?
Uses the explainable High Pay Score within the job’s current occupation/seniority/currency comparison sample.
Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.
The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
The source posting date is today.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.
Decision checklist
What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?
This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.
Supported strengths
- Advertised pay is above much of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
Visible cautions
- Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
- The role may involve non-standard hours or on-call work.
- This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.
Still unknown
- Visa sponsorship is not established by the available listing data.
Pay vs. barriers
Strong pay with stated barriers to weigh
Pay compares strongly, but qualification or location constraints are also visible. Higher pay does not erase those practical requirements.
Comparable disclosed-pay evidence places this job at about 83 / 100 within its current occupation/seniority sample.
1 explicit Remote Freedom restriction signal is present and is shown separately from qualification requirements.
- Education requirement is not established.
- Required prior-experience level is not established.
This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.
Beyond the headline
Not enough evidence for a hidden-value finding
Potential hidden value appears only when several distinct non-pay advantages are actually supported. Missing requirements or benefits are never counted as positives.
The annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 83% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
Still check: The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.
Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.
Explainable opportunity highlight
Why this opportunity stands out
These are supported signals from the current listing and comparison sample—not a guarantee that this is the best job for you.
Its annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 83% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
The source provides structured salary information with a comparatively focused range, improving the usefulness of pay comparisons.
The source posting date is today.
Compensation intelligence
How competitive is this pay?
Above-market pay in current sample
The annualized midpoint is above the 75th percentile boundary of the current comparable sample.
The highlighted band is the middle 50% of the current comparable sample after the outlier guard. The dark marker is this job’s annualized salary midpoint.
Why this analysis?
- This score reflects the current advertised-pay distribution for comparable active jobs in the same currency. It measures pay position, not overall job quality.
- Salary confidence: High. The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
- Range quality: Focused salary range.
Employer compensation communication
Pay transparency at Grafana Labs
Very strong current pay transparency
This score uses the employer’s current visible listings and combines how often pay is disclosed with how useful those ranges are. Bonus, equity and benefit mentions are shown separately and do not raise the score.
This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.
Current employer intelligence
Grafana Labs — current opportunity snapshot
Employer Evidence Profile
How often this employer’s current visible sampled vacancies state decision-critical information. These percentages describe evidence coverage, not employer quality.
Current sampled listings with advertised compensation evidence.
Current sampled listings whose work arrangement is clearer than unknown.
Current sampled listings with a supported country signal.
Current sampled listings with an explicit closing time.
Current sampled listings with a usable posting date.
Current sampled listings that explicitly indicate confirmed, possible or unavailable sponsorship evidence.
Current sampled listings with an explicit relocation signal.
Low coverage means the current visible listings state the information less often. It does not prove that the employer lacks the policy, benefit or support.
Common current occupation families: Sales (21) · Marketing (15) · Software engineering (13)
Visible seniority mix: Early-career (1) · Senior / lead (56) · Leadership (26)
Current employment-type mix: Full time (83)
Most visible hiring countries in this sample: United Kingdom (22) · United States (12) · Spain (11) · Sweden (8)
Other current roles from this employer
Regional Sales Director, Commercial, Growth | West| Remote
USA
Leadership · Region-restricted remoteRegional Marketing Associate | East or Central US | Remote
USA
Senior / lead · Region-restricted remotePrincipal Technical Marketing Engineer | US | Remote
USA
Senior / lead · Region-restricted remoteNetsuite Systems Manager | EST United States | Remote
USA
Leadership · Region-restricted remoteThese are other current vacancies visible from the same employer, not endorsements or evidence of future hiring plans.
Current disclosed salary medians by currency
- EUR 120,680 median · 42 disclosed salaries
- USD 252,500 median · 11 disclosed salaries
- GBP 114,354 median · 11 disclosed salaries
Questions worth asking this employer
- If work authorization matters to you, what sponsorship policy applies to this specific role and location?
- If a move is required, is relocation assistance available for this position?
- What is the expected application and interview timeline if the listing does not state a closing date?
These questions are prompted by missing or thin evidence in the employer’s current visible vacancies. Missing evidence is not treated as a negative judgement.
This employer snapshot uses the employer’s current visible listings. Remote and sponsorship rates use only vacancies with explicit evidence, while missing information stays unknown. Salary medians are shown separately by currency and need at least five disclosed salaries. Zero confirmed sponsorship means none was explicitly found in this sample, not that sponsorship is unavailable.
This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.
Work-location intelligence
Remote Freedom
Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions
Why this score?
- The role is remote but the source identifies a country or regional restriction.
Location restrictions detected
- Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.
International applicant intelligence
Visa & relocation signals
Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough sponsorship statement.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.
Tradeoff check
What’s the catch?
These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:
- The role may involve non-standard hours or on-call work.
- This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.
Current alternatives
Better-paying alternatives
These current roles show a materially higher annualized salary midpoint in the same broad occupation and currency. Similar seniority, country, work arrangement, employment type and recency are preferred where possible; higher pay alone does not make an alternative a better fit.
Senior Full Stack Product Engineer (TypeScript)
Maze · Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, UK
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement
Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Ireland | Remote
Grafana Labs · Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, UK
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement
Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Germany | Remote
Grafana Labs · Germany, Spain, Sweden, UK
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement
Alternatives are drawn from the current inventory rather than presented as application recommendations. A pay difference needs to be meaningful—about 3% or more at the midpoint—and different currencies are not compared.
Application-path intelligence
What can we see about the application process?
Provider-mediated application path
The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.
Current destination: jobicy.com · HTTPS
No additional required application step is clear in the available listing text. This does not mean the external application is one-click or friction-free.
Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.
Application safety context
Application safety check
Basic application-safety context available
The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.
Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording
Observable transport-safety signals
- The available application destination uses HTTPS.
Before you share money or sensitive information
- Confirm the vacancy on the employer’s official careers site when practical, especially if a recruiter contacts you outside the listed application path.
- Check that recruiter email domains and application destinations are consistent with the employer or an identifiable recruiting provider.
- Do not pay application, processing, training or equipment fees merely to be considered for a job.
- Do not send cryptocurrency, gift cards, online-banking credentials or PINs as part of an application.
- Treat unusually fast offers or interviews conducted only through informal messaging channels as reasons to verify the employer independently.
This is a limited safety screen, not employer verification and not a fraud determination. Never send money, cryptocurrency, passwords or sensitive banking credentials merely because a listing appears on a job platform.
Original listing details
The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
This is a remote opportunity and we are looking for candidates from the UK, Sweden, Spain or Germany.
About the role:
Grafana Cloud runs Mimir, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope as multi-tenant SaaS databases across AWS, GCP and Azure in regions worldwide. Our highest-SLA customers depend on them to run their businesses. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to keep these systems reliable at scale.
The role combines building and operating. You’ll write the software, automation and product changes that make our databases more reliable, including changes to the Mimir, Loki and Tempo codebases where reliability calls for it. You’ll also be on call for our highest-SLA customers and handle the operational work that comes with it. You’ll bring a production mindset to product engineering and engineering rigor to reliability, and you’ll set technical direction across squads.
What You’ll Do
- Build reliability into the product. Write production code in our services, tooling and the Mimir, Loki and Tempo codebases that makes our databases more resilient, self-healing and scalable as demand grows quickly.
- Build automation and platform tooling that removes toil and scales our reliability practices across regions and cloud providers.
- Lead technical design. Author design docs, review others’ designs and PRs, and shape feature design so it’s scalable and operable from day one.
- Own the SLO framework. Define and evolve per-tenant SLOs and reliability models. Use SLO burn and incident learnings to find and fix the causes of failure in the systems themselves.
- Improve observability and alerting so we find problems before customers do, and so escalations are actionable rather than noisy.
- Be on call for our highest-SLA customers. Act as a technical escalation point for complex customer environments. Lead customer-impacting incident response, including customer bridge calls when needed, and write blameless post-incident reviews that lead to engineering fixes.
- Handle the operational work that comes from on-call. This includes investigating customer escalations, following up on incident actions, tuning capacity and configuration, and turning recurring issues into permanent fixes or automation.
- Multiply the team. Mentor engineers, teach reliability practices that teams adopt early in development, and work with engineering leadership on roadmaps and product strategy.
- We highly value those who are intellectually curious, who default to transparency, possess a high bias towards action, and who are also kind (this is important!)
On-Call
Weekday on-call is 12-hour shifts, Monday to Friday, split between North America and Europe so you cover your local working hours. Weekends are covered by a separate 24-hour rotation. You’ll take a weekend roughly once every six to eight weeks.
What We’re Looking For:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time building and owning distributed systems in production.
- Strong production software skills, ideally in at least one object-oriented language. You write clean, tested code and can make targeted changes in large open-source codebases you didn’t write.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems: performance, scaling and failure modes. You can reason about how a system will break before it does.
- Experience running multi-tenant systems at scale on Kubernetes in AWS, GCP or Azure, with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Helm or Jsonnet.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing SLOs.
- Experience being on call for production systems. You troubleshoot calmly and methodically under pressure, and you’ve taken part in blameless incident response and written high-quality post-incident reviews.
- Staff-level technical leadership: driving cross-team projects, setting technical direction and making the engineers around you better.
- Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking and cloud storage.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, Prometheus or other observability and time-series databases.
- Open-source contributions.
- Customer reliability engineering (CRE) or customer-facing escalation experience.
In Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is €94,025 - €112,830. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.#LI-Remote
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*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
- 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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Listing provenance
Where did this job come from?
See where this vacancy came from and whether more than one current source can still support it. Source names help with traceability and attribution; they are not endorsements or guarantees.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
- Continuity
- One recent renewable source
- Source-class independence
- One renewable source class
- Last source observation
- Observed very recently
This records when High Paid Job last observed the vacancy in source evidence. It confirms source presence, not that the employer edited the vacancy at that time.
- 1 enabled source recently observed this vacancy.
Source confidence is about traceability and continuity. It is separate from application safety and should not be read as an employer reputation rating.
The vacancy is supplied by an external job publisher. Source information helps show where the listing came from; it is not a guarantee about the employer or vacancy.
Listing source: Jobicy. Destination: jobicy.com. The application opens in a new tab so you can keep this report open.