Software Engineer - AI (Remote)

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. If this role excites you, we'd love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. This is a remote position. About our Platform: Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it efficiently and effectively. 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 and Kubernetes clusters in new environments, starting with our own physical hardware. You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; from writing design docs, to looking at developer feedback, and integration testing. The Platform team mainly works with Go, Python, and Shell. Since a lot of operators and developers use our software, having some grounding in both of these spaces really helps us with building better platforms for our users. Datacenter experience. Management of cluster networking components: load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, cross-cluster communication, Routing protocols, Architecture. Work with our users (Grafana Cloud application teams) to help understand their needs and ensure we're investing in the right capabilities. Bonus Points For: Experience with Cluster-API, Tinkerbell, Talos and/or CephYou've worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously. We run Grafana Cloud on AWS, GCP, and Azure using each's managed Kubernetes service - EKS, GKE, AKS.We use Tanka for configuration management with Jsonnet. Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and projects like Karpenter. Enjoys programming in Go! We love building our own tools, utilities, exporters, etc. In UK, the compensation range for this role is 72,177 - 86,612. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.*Compensation ranges are country specific. Why You'll Thrive at Grafana Labs:100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose. Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career. Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable. Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. 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