Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Sweden | Remote

ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE to join our team at Grafana Labs. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting our highest value Grafana Cloud customers by increasing the reliability of our Cloud databases. Our databases are based on Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope, and we provide these databases as a SaaS product from AWS, GCP, and Azure across all regions. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE, you will be responsible for ensuring the exceptional reliability of our database products for our highest-SLA customers. Your key responsibilities will include: - Partnering closely with product engineering squads to design and implement automation to scale our reliability practices - Owning production reliability for high-SLA and complex customer environments - Designing and implementing SLOs and reliability models for our customers - Proactively reducing SLO burn to prevent repeat incidents - Serving as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents - Leading customer-impacting incident response and post-incident reviews - Contributing to design docs and code reviews - Influencing feature design to ensure production scalability and operability - Building automation to eliminate toil where needed - Improving alert quality and reducing noisy escalations WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 8+ years of engineering experience, with 4+ years in SRE/CRE/production engineering - Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling - Strong experience with technical leadership, leading a team through projects, mentoring other engineers, and serving as a force-multiplier - Experience operating multi-tenant systems in production - Strong experience designing and implementing SLOs - Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java, etc) - Experience with Linux operating systems internals, and some knowledge of networking, cloud storage, and scaling - Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills - Experience with calmly and actively participating in blame-free Incident Response, following up on actions, and writing high-quality PIRs - Ability to reason about performance, scaling, and failure modes - Comfortable working within an engineering team where individuals are encouraged to have a strong sense of autonomy and self-direction - Ability to partner deeply with product engineering teams WHY REMOTE Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries. We invest heavily in developer productivity, providing modern AI coding assistants and a company-funded usage budget to enable you to iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. BENEFITS - Competitive salary - Comprehensive health plan - Parental leave - Education stipend - Life insurance - Equipment stipend - Flexible schedule - Opportunities for professional growth and development - Access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro)