Senior Platform Engineer – Platform Metal

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Senior Platform Engineer building bare-metal infrastructure, networking, and Kubernetes clusters for Grafana Cloud. Managing provisioning, autoscaling, Terraform/Crossplane modules, and platform capabilities for application 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 platform capabilities
  • Participate in an on-call rotation

Requirements:

  • Comfortable working in a remote-first company
  • Strong communication and collaborative approach
  • Interest or experience working with distributed systems
  • Eager to learn and grow
  • Holistic software development approach across design documentation, developer feedback, and integration testing
  • Experience with Go, Python, and Shell
  • Experience operating your code
  • Datacenter experience
  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
  • Candidates must be located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden, or Ireland

Benefits:

  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 100% remote work / remote-only company
  • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
  • Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things
  • Career growth pathways and development opportunities
  • Approachable, transparent leadership
  • In-person onboarding
  • 30 days of annual leave per annum
  • 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days