Senior Platform Engineer – Platform Metal
Posted 15hrs ago
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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


















