Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Managed Services | Canada | Remote at Grafana Labs

**Who this is for** This role is designed for a senior-level infrastructure or systems engineer with at least 8 years of experience managing high-throughput, distributed environments. You should be deeply familiar with the "hot path" of data ingestion and have a strong grasp of Kubernetes, cloud storage (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and streaming technologies like WarpStream or Kafka. This is a technical leadership position for someone who enjoys diagnosing complex failure modes across multi-cloud clusters while remaining hands-on. **Key highlights** Grafana Labs offers a mature remote-first culture that prioritizes autonomy and transparency. The compensation is highly competitive, featuring a base salary up to CAD 223,642 plus RSUs and a generous 30-day annual leave policy (including company-wide shutdown days). You will have a direct impact on the infrastructure powering next-generation database products (Mimir, Loki, Tempo) while utilizing a dedicated budget for modern AI developer tools. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have extensive experience operating 100+ cluster environments at scale using Go, Helm, or Terraform. * Thrive in "blameless" incident response environments and enjoy hunting down systemic risks in distributed systems. * Resident in a Canadian time zone and value a 12-hour daylight on-call rotation. * Are comfortable leading technical strategy and mentoring peers without formal management overhead.