Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | UK | Remote

Employer shown to signed-in membersEuropeLead8+ years experienceDevOps & Infrastructure

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The role

The company is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the SRE team that keeps its Mimir, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope cloud databases reliable for top-tier customers. The role is remote for candidates in the UK, Sweden, Spain or Germany.

What you will do

  • Own production reliability for high-SLA, complex customer environments, embedded within the Mimir, Loki and Tempo squads
  • Define per-tenant SLOs and reduce SLO burn to prevent repeat incidents
  • Act as a primary escalation point and on-call for incidents, leading response and post-incident reviews
  • Build automation to remove toil and improve alert quality
  • Review designs and code, and influence features so they scale and are operable in production

What they ask for

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, 4+ of them in SRE, CRE or production engineering
  • Strong Kubernetes experience on AWS, GCP or Azure, plus infrastructure-as-code such as Helm, Terraform or Jsonnet
  • Experience running multi-tenant systems in production and designing SLOs
  • Proficiency in a language such as Go, Python or Java
  • Knowledge of Linux internals, networking and cloud storage
  • Technical leadership and mentoring experience
  • Ability to work from the UK, Sweden, Spain or Germany

What they offer

  • Company-funded budget for AI coding assistants
  • 100% remote company with staff in 40+ countries

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