Senior Software Engineer - Platform InfraCore

Summary

Join Grafana Labs, a remote-first open-source company, as a Senior Software Engineer in their Platform InfraCore squad. This role involves managing Kubernetes cluster provisioning, networking components, scheduling, and autoscaling. You will maintain Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for CSP resources, collaborate with application teams, and participate in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate possesses experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Crossplane, and Go, along with a holistic approach to development. Grafana Labs offers a remote-first culture, opportunities for growth, and competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• 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
• For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful
• We operate by consensus, you can contribute to a discussion but then commit to the team decision
• As such, being such a highly distributed company, means we would love someone who is keen on working with distributed systems , too
• You are eager to learn and grow
• There is a lot of room for growth and development, and the team has quite a lot of knowledge to share for those who are wanting to learn
• You approach development holistically
• The team owns the full life cycle of our code; from writing design docs, to looking at developer feedback, and integration testing
• We appreciate engineers who enjoy looking at the big picture, and also notice the details of the brush strokes
• The Platform team mainly works with Go, Python, and Shell
• You have experience with operating your code
• 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

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes cluster provisioning and lifecycle management
• Management of cluster networking components: load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, network policies, private connectivity for customers, cross-cluster communication
• Management of scheduling and autoscaling
• Maintaining Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for CSP resources common to our users. As well the management of versioning and compatibility for Crossplane and Terraform core as well as providers
• Work with our users (Grafana Cloud application teams) to help understand their needs and ensure we’re investing in the right capabilities
• Participation in the Platform department Infrastructure wing on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously
• At Grafana Labs, “OSS is in our DNA”
• Experience with a few CSPs
• We run Grafana Cloud on AWS, GCP, and Azure using each’s managed Kubernetes service - EKS, GKE, AKS
• Experience operating and managing workloads on Kubernetes
• We use Tanka for configuration management with Jsonnet
• Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and projects like Karpenter
• Terraform and/or Crossplane experience
• We have mixed usage - each has its strengths
• Enjoys programming in Go!
• We love building our own tools, utilities, exporters, etc. that suit our needs and otherwise don’t exist (and open sourcing them)

Benefits

• In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 120,927 - 151,160
• Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process
• Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here
• 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