Responsibilities
- Manage Grafana’s physical Metal environment from bare metal through Kubernetes.
- Manage cluster networking components, including load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, cross-cluster communication, routing protocols, and network architecture.
- Manage Kubernetes scheduling and autoscaling.
- Maintain Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for common cloud-service-provider resources, including versioning and compatibility.
- Work with Grafana Cloud application teams to understand their needs and prioritize platform capabilities.
- Own the full lifecycle of platform code, including design documentation, developer feedback, integration testing, deployment, and operations.
Requirements
- Experience with distributed systems and operating production code.
- Experience with datacenter environments and participation in an on-call rotation.
- Proficiency or experience with Go, Python, and Shell.
- Experience managing Kubernetes workloads and infrastructure is valuable.
- Bonus experience includes Cluster-API, Tinkerbell, Talos, Ceph, Terraform, Crossplane, cloud providers, Tanka, Jsonnet, and Karpenter.
- Experience with open-source or community-based projects is a plus.
Benefits
- 100% remote position for candidates in the UK, Spain, and Ireland.
- In-person onboarding for new employees.
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) are included for all roles.
- Career growth pathways, transparent communication, and an open-source, high-trust culture.
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About Grafana
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, while getting the visibility they need to run AI systems reliably and at scale. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – 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 1,400+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital.