Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

• You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity
• 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

Desirable

• We are hiring for the Platform InfraCore squad. This squad provides and owns automation of the provisioning of CSP resources, including networking, Kubernetes clusters and specific CSP resources required by our application teams
• We’re part of a Platform Engineering group that manages infrastructure for the teams that are building some of the most cherished Platform tools - Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope to name a few
• 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
• A few of our upcoming projects:
• Improving K8s efficiency. Considerations include processor architecture, CSP capacity, machine selection, multi-AZ utilization
• K8s cluster lifecycle automation. Grafana Cloud regions are mapped to CSP regions - we already utilize many and plan to utilize many more. We’re always maturing our approach to operating at an increasingly greater scale
• Terraform ease of use. Mentioned above is Terraform and Crossplane. Our Crossplane delivery strategy is strong! As is our Terraform delivery, but we have a bit of work to do to get it where we want it to be for ourselves and our internal users