Senior Platform Engineer (Platform Metal)

Join Grafana Labs as a Senior Platform Engineer in the newly created "Metal" squad. You will be responsible for building and provisioning resources, managing our physical environment, and working closely with application teams to understand their needs. Enjoy a fully remote work environment, generous vacation and healthcare benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

• Management of physical “Metal” environment from bare metal to Kubernetes, including cluster networking components.
• Building and provisioning resources including storage, networking, and Kubernetes clusters in new environments.
• Maintaining Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for CSP resources common to users, and managing versioning and compatibility.
• 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
• As such, being such a highly distributed company, means we would love someone who is keen on working with distributed systems, too
• You enjoy working with engineers, as well as with the management structures that are there to support you and enable you and your team to do your very best
• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus, you can contribute to a discussion but then commit to the team decision
• You are eager to learn and grow. There is a lot of room for growth and development, and the team has quite a lot of knowledge to share for those who are wanting to learn
• You have experience with operating your code. Since a lot of operators and developers use our software, having some grounding in both of these spaces really helps us with building better platforms for our users
• You approach development holistically. The team owns the full life cycle of our code; from writing design docs, to looking at developer feedback, and integration testing. We appreciate engineers who enjoy looking at the big picture, and also notice the details of the brush strokes. The Platform team mainly works with Go, Python, and Shell
• Datacenter experience
• Participation in an on-call rotation
• Maybe there’s something missing in this job description that you think you might bring to our table? Feel free to let us know!
• Experience with Cluster-API, Tinkerbell, Talos and/or Ceph
• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously. At Grafana Labs, “OSS is in our DNA”
• Experience with a few CSPs. We run Grafana Cloud on AWS, GCP, and Azure using each’s managed Kubernetes service - EKS, GKE, AKS
• Experience operating and managing workloads on Kubernetes. We use Tanka for configuration management with Jsonnet
• Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and projects like Karpenter
• Terraform and/or Crossplane experience. We have mixed usage - each has its strengths
• Enjoys programming in Go! We love building our own tools, utilities, exporters, etc. that suit our needs and otherwise don’t exist (and open sourcing them)