Senior Platform Engineer - Platform Metal

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries. We are hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join the new Foundation's “Metal” squad, part of the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) group.

The Metal 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.
• Work with users to understand needs and ensure we're investing in the right capabilities.

• Experience with Go, Python, and Shell.
• Experience with operating your code.
• Datacenter experience.
• Participation in an on-call rotation.

• Experience with Cluster-API, Tinkerbell, Talos, and/or Ceph.
• Open source or community-based projects.
• 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 the UK, the compensation range is £91,755 - £110,106. All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.