Senior Platform Engineer – Platform Metal

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Senior Platform Engineer building bare-metal Kubernetes infrastructure for Grafana Cloud. Managing networking, clusters, autoscaling, Terraform, and Crossplane for internal engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the physical “Metal” environment from bare metal to Kubernetes
  • Manage cluster networking components including load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, cross-cluster communication, routing protocols, and architecture
  • Manage scheduling and autoscaling
  • Maintain Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for CSP resources
  • Manage versioning and compatibility for Crossplane, Terraform core, and providers
  • Work with Grafana Cloud application teams to understand their needs and invest in the right capabilities
  • Participate in an on-call rotation

Requirements:

  • Comfortable working in a remote-first company
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Holistic software development approach, including design documents, developer feedback, and integration testing
  • Experience operating code in both operator and developer contexts
  • Datacenter experience
  • Participation in an on-call rotation
  • Experience with Go, Python, and Shell
  • Experience with Cluster-API, Tinkerbell, Talos, and/or Ceph is a bonus
  • Experience with open-source or community-based projects is a bonus
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure and their managed Kubernetes services is a bonus
  • Experience operating and managing Kubernetes workloads is a bonus
  • Experience with Tanka and Jsonnet is a bonus
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and Karpenter is a bonus
  • Terraform and/or Crossplane experience is a bonus
  • Programming experience in Go is a bonus

Benefits:

  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 100% remote work
  • Career Growth Pathways
  • In-Person onboarding
  • 30 days of annual leave per annum
  • 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
  • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
  • Autonomy and support to ship great work
  • Empowered, high-trust teams
  • Approachable, transparent leadership