[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Grafana Labs logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2021/11/42a3c42246467ec231dd876e92b63452.jpeg)](https://jobicy.com/company/grafana-labs.md)[Grafana Labs](https://jobicy.com/company/grafana-labs.md) # Staff Software Engineer – Databases SRE | Spain | Remote Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/grafana-labs.md)ShareRemote from[UK](https://jobicy.com/job-region/uk.md), [Spain](https://jobicy.com/job-region/spain.md), [Germany](https://jobicy.com/job-region/germany.md)+1 more, [Sweden](https://jobicy.com/job-region/sweden.md)SalaryEUR 94,025–112,830 / yrDepartment[DevOps & Infrastructure](https://jobicy.com/categories/admin.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished1 Nov 2026Apply before1 Dec 2026Listing views49Application actions1Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on site reliability for its multi-tenant SaaS database platforms, including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope. The role combines hands-on software engineering with SRE operations, including reliability automation, SLO design, observability improvements, capacity work, and incident response. The engineer will provide staff-level technical leadership across teams, contribute to open-source codebases, and mentor other engineers. Candidates need extensive distributed-systems experience, Kubernetes and public-cloud expertise, infrastructure-as-code skills, and confidence operating critical production services. The position includes weekday on-call coverage during local European working hours and a weekend rotation approximately every six to eight weeks. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior staff-level reliability role supporting high-SLA, multi-tenant distributed databases across several cloud providers. It demands deep technical judgment during incidents, cross-team technical leadership, and the ability to turn operational failures into durable product and automation improvements. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader EU market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Highly competitive€103,427.50EU market range (per year)€85k–€120k0€132k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a Spanish base-compensation range of €94,025–€112,830. The yearly period is inferred from the full-time staff-level role, Spanish market context, and annual-scale compensation amount because the posting does not explicitly state a pay cadence. The estimated market range is €85,000–€120,000 per year for comparable staff-level database SRE and distributed-systems engineering roles in Spain. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Site Reliability Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Site%20Reliability%20Engineering.md)[Distributed Systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20Systems.md)[Kubernetes](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Kubernetes.md)[AWS](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AWS.md)[Google Cloud Platform](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Google%20Cloud%20Platform.md)[Microsoft Azure](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Microsoft%20Azure.md)[Terraform](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Terraform.md)[Helm](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Helm.md)[Infrastructure as Code](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Infrastructure%20as%20Code.md)[Service Level Objectives](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Service%20Level%20Objectives.md)[Incident Response](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Incident%20Response.md)[Observability](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Observability.md)[Linux](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Linux.md)[Networking](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Networking.md)[Technical Leadership](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20Leadership.md) Sample interview questionsHow would you design an SLO framework for a multi-tenant observability database with customers on different service tiers?I would begin by identifying user-facing service journeys, such as write availability, query success, query latency, and data durability. I would define tenant-aware SLIs, set tier-specific objectives and error budgets, and ensure the measurement pipeline is reliable and resistant to noisy low-volume signals. I would then connect burn-rate alerts and error-budget policies to clear engineering actions, capacity decisions, and post-incident follow-up. Describe how you would investigate a recurring latency incident in a Kubernetes-hosted distributed database. I would first establish the scope by identifying affected tenants, regions, request paths, and time windows. I would correlate application metrics, traces, logs, Kubernetes events, resource saturation, network behavior, storage performance, and recent configuration or deployment changes. After isolating the failure mode, I would mitigate customer impact, document the incident, and prioritize a permanent code, configuration, or automation fix to prevent recurrence. What principles guide your approach to making changes in a large open-source codebase you did not create? I start by understanding the architecture, ownership boundaries, tests, operational behavior, and historical context of the relevant component. I keep changes small and observable, validate assumptions through targeted tests and reviews, and consider rollback and upgrade behavior before deployment. I also communicate trade-offs clearly so maintainers and adjacent teams can evaluate the operational impact. How do you reduce operational toil without creating unsafe or opaque automation? I prioritize repetitive work that has clear inputs, predictable decisions, and measurable outcomes. I build automation with guardrails, dry-run or staged rollout modes, auditability, actionable alerts, and explicit ownership for failures. The goal is to remove manual repetition while preserving visibility, safe escalation paths, and opportunities to learn from exceptions. How would you lead a customer-impacting incident involving several engineering teams? I would establish an incident lead, clarify the customer impact and immediate mitigation goals, and maintain a single source of truth for updates and decisions. I would keep technical investigation parallelized while ensuring external communication is factual, timely, and free of speculation. After recovery, I would facilitate a blameless review that converts contributing factors into owned engineering actions with clear follow-through. Opportunity details ## About this role. 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](http://grafana.com) and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/) and [X](https://twitter.com/grafana). 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](https://grafana.com/about/careers/#jobs).#LI-Remote #LI-Remote *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. #LI-Remote For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our [privacy policy](https://grafana.com/legal/applicant-and-candidate-privacy-policy/). Show more [Apply now >](https://jobicy.com/jobs/158324-staff-software-engineer-databases-sre-spain-remote.md) * ![Upload CV](data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) ### Upload your resume now To unlock remote work opportunities and be discovered by global employers. This job listing has been manually reviewed by the Jobicy Trust & Safety Team for compliance with our posting guidelines, including verification of the company's legitimacy, accuracy of job details, clarity of remote work policy, and absence of misleading or fraudulent content. Next step ## Apply now. Follow the employer’s application method and review Jobicy’s safety guidance before sharing personal information. Keep exploring ## Related remote jobs. * ![GitLab logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2020/12/WRILS-201207055737-109952.jpg) GitLab Nov 1 New ### [Senior Professional Services Engineer](https://jobicy.com/jobs/158368-senior-professional-services-engineer.md) GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50… * ![Grafana Labs logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2021/11/42a3c42246467ec231dd876e92b63452.jpeg) Grafana Labs Nov 1 New ### [Staff Software Engineer – Databases SRE | Ireland | Remote](https://jobicy.com/jobs/158320-staff-software-engineer-databases-sre-ireland-remote.md) 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…. * ![Grafana Labs logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2021/11/42a3c42246467ec231dd876e92b63452.jpeg) Grafana Labs Nov 1 New ### [Staff Software Engineer – Databases SRE | Germany | Remote](https://jobicy.com/jobs/158315-staff-software-engineer-databases-sre-germany-remote.md) 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…. * ![GitLab logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2020/12/WRILS-201207055737-109952.jpg) GitLab Nov 1 New ### [Director of Engineering, Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms](https://jobicy.com/jobs/158295-director-of-engineering-dedicated-infrastructure-platforms.md) GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50… * ![Roboflow logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2026/06/8cd75e4b-221.webp) Roboflow Nov 1 New ### [IT Operations Engineer](https://jobicy.com/jobs/158282-it-operations-engineer.md) Who We Are Our mission is to make the world programmable. Sight is one of the key ways we understand the world, and soon this will be true for the… * ![Roboflow logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2026/06/8cd75e4b-221.webp) Roboflow Nov 1 New ### [Infrastructure Engineer](https://jobicy.com/jobs/158274-infrastructure-engineer-6.md) Who We Are Our mission is to make the world programmable. Sight is one of the key ways we understand the world, and soon this will be true for the… * ![CentralReach logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2022/07/a0eac9f542eb8c3fff7c19990dd5c1bb.jpg) CentralReach Nov 1 New ### [Sr. Site Reliability Engineer](https://jobicy.com/jobs/154372-sr-site-reliability-engineer.md) CentralReach is a leading provider of autism and IDD care software for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), multidisciplinary therapy, and special education. Trusted by more than 200,000 users, we enable therapy… * ![CentralReach logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2022/07/a0eac9f542eb8c3fff7c19990dd5c1bb.jpg) CentralReach Nov 1 New ### [Principal Platform Engineer](https://jobicy.com/jobs/154365-principal-platform-engineer.md) CentralReach is a leading provider of autism and IDD care software for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), multidisciplinary therapy, and special education. Trusted by more than 200,000 users, we enable therapy… * ![Mural logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2022/01/9b6f1383-221.jpeg) Mural Nov 1 New ### [Software Engineer, Platform Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs/154333-software-engineer-platform-engineering.md) ABOUT THE TEAM The Platform Engineering team builds the tools and services that accelerate the software development life cycle of the software engineers at Mural. We work on tools that… * ![Datadog logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/06/c1654fc7-221.jpg) Datadog Nov 1 New ### [Developer Advocate – Service Management EMEA](https://jobicy.com/jobs/154340-developer-advocate-service-management-emea.md) We are a team of engineers that translate our real-world experience to help our user communities solve problems. With a focus on service management, helping teams respond to incidents, run… [Browse all jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)