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


















