[Hiring] Software Engineer - Platform Metal @Grafana Labs

Role Description

This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the UK, Spain, and Ireland only.

The Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) delivered by the Foundations group provides application engineers with the tools, systems, and Kubernetes clusters they need to build, deploy, and run their workloads.

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
• 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.

Qualifications

• Enjoy working with engineers and management structures
• Comfortable working in a remote-first company
• Experience with distributed systems
• Eager to learn and grow
• Approach development holistically
• Experience with operating your code
• Datacenter experience
• Participation in an on-call rotation

Requirements

• 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 our users (Grafana Cloud application teams) to help understand their needs

Bonus Points For

• Experience with Cluster-API, Tinkerbell, Talos, and/or Ceph
• Experience with 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

Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture
• Scaling Organization
• Transparent Communication
• Innovation-Driven
• Open Source Roots
• Empowered Teams
• Career Growth Pathways
• Approachable Leadership
• Passionate People
• In-Person onboarding
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum

Equal Opportunity Employer

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law.