Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' Platform Productivity squad as a Backend Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of our Internal Engineering Platform (IEP). You will play a key role in improving and extending our CI/CD platform, build, release, and deployment automation, and application configuration management tooling. Collaborate with diverse internal teams to support their requirements and participate in on-call rotations. We are looking for a flexible software engineer with experience in operating code, Kubernetes, and Docker, and familiarity with Infrastructure as Code. The role offers opportunities for growth and development within a remote-first company.

Requirements

• Have engineering/software development experience within a Platform group delivering services to internal engineering teams
• Have experience working in a cloud environment
• Have experience with Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/Crossplane
• Have familiarity with Kubernetes administration
• Have experience/interest in implementing, integrating, and maintaining observability systems and processes

Responsibilities

• Help maintain, improve and extend existing systems
• Participate in choosing what to focus on next and when/how to sunset systems
• Help design, compare, and choose appropriate solutions for the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP)
• Contribute to CI/CD platform management and development
• Develop build, release and deployment automation
• Develop application configuration management tooling
• Automate "up to date" software
• Manage artefacts
• Work with diverse internal teams to support implementation of their requirements
• Be part of an on-call rotation to support Platform tooling

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience with Tanka

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)