Senior Platform Engineer

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations. 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.

We are hiring an engineer as part of the creation of a new Foundation’s “Metal” squad. This squad will be responsible for building and provisioning resources including storage, networking and Kubernetes clusters in new environments, starting with our own physical hardware. They will provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources, outside public Cloud, to the rest of Engineering.

• Management of our physical “Metal” environment from bare metal to kubernetes.
• Management of cluster networking components: load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, cross-cluster communication, Routing protocols, Architecture.
• Management of scheduling and autoscaling.
• Maintaining Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for CSP resources common to our users.
• Management of versioning and compatibility for Crossplane and Terraform core as well as providers.
• Work with our users (Grafana Cloud application teams) to help understand their needs and ensure we’re investing in the right capabilities.

• You enjoy working with engineers and management structures.
• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key.
• You are eager to learn and grow.
• You approach development holistically.
• You have experience with operating your code.
• Datacenter experience.
• Participation in an on-call rotation.

• Experience with Cluster-API, Tinkerbell, Talos and/or Ceph.
• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously.
• Experience with a few CSPs (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience operating and managing workloads on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and projects like Karpenter.
• Terraform and/or Crossplane experience.
• Enjoys programming in Go!

In UK, the compensation range for this role is £91,755 - £110,106. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). 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.

Apply via the provided link.