Software Engineer - Platform Metal | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries.

The Opportunity:

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 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. They will provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources, outside public Cloud, to the rest of Engineering.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• You enjoy working with engineers, as well as with the management structures that are there to support you and enable you and your team to do your very best.
• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key.
• You are eager to learn and grow.
• You approach development holistically.
• The Platform team mainly works with Go, Python, and Shell.
• You have experience with operating your code.
• Datacenter experience.
• Participation in an on-call rotation.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Management of our physical “Metal” environment from bare metal to Kubernetes.
• Management of cluster networking components: load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, cross-cluster communication, Routing protocols, Architecture.
• Management of scheduling and autoscaling.
• Maintaining Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for CSP resources common to our users.
• 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 Ceph.
• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously.
• Experience with a few CSPs.
• Experience operating and managing workloads on Kubernetes.
• Terraform and/or Crossplane experience.
• Enjoys programming in Go!

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.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture.
• Scaling Organization.
• Transparent Communication.
• Innovation-Driven.
• Open Source Roots.
• Empowered Teams.
• Career Growth Pathways.
• Approachable Leadership.
• Passionate People.
• In-Person onboarding.
• Balance is Key.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law.