Senior Software Engineer - Databases, SRE | USA | Remote at Grafana Labs
$154,445–$185,334from the description
Jul 19, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior site reliability engineering role focused on the production database infrastructure underpinning a managed cloud observability platform — specifically the Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope components running across AWS, GCP, and Azure. The engineer will be embedded with product squads, own reliability for high-SLA customer environments, define and manage per-tenant SLOs, lead incident response, and build automation to reduce operational toil. Suits experienced SRE or production engineers with strong Kubernetes and multi-tenant systems backgrounds.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 35,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 21,500–53,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role sits squarely at the SRE/production-engineering intersection: it requires writing automation and code (Go/Python/Java) as well as operating multi-tenant cloud databases, making 15-1252 (Software Developers) the best fit, with 15-1244 (Systems Administrators) as a plausible runner-up given the heavy operational/on-call component.
The 6+ years overall / 3+ years SRE experience requirement is captured in the overall years minimum at 6 (the stated overall floor); the 3-year SRE sub-requirement has no named technology and is noted here instead.
Infrastructure-as-code tooling is listed as 'Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.' — these are presented as interchangeable examples of the same requirement, so Helm is the primary skill with Terraform and Jsonnet as alternatives.
Cloud provider requirement is 'AWS, GCP, or Azure' — AWS is listed as primary with GCP and Azure as alternatives.
Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and Grafana Cloud appear in the role context/stack narrative rather than a formal requirements gate, so they are marked preferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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