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Grafana Labs is hiring a Software Engineer to join the new Platform Metal squad within the Foundations group. This team is responsible for building and provisioning infrastructure resources—storage, networking, and Kubernetes clusters—in new environments, starting with Grafana's own physical hardware. You'll provide a Kubernetes control plane and underlying resources outside public cloud to the rest of the engineering organization.
Key responsibilities include:
- Management of physical "Metal" environments from bare metal to Kubernetes
- Cluster networking components: load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, cross-cluster communication, routing protocols, and architecture
- Scheduling and autoscaling management
- Maintaining Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for CSP resources
- Managing versioning and compatibility for Crossplane and Terraform core and providers
- Collaborating with Grafana Cloud application teams to understand their needs and inform infrastructure investment priorities
You should have experience with distributed systems, datacenter operations, and on-call rotations. The role requires a holistic approach to development—from design docs through integration testing and operational feedback. The Platform team primarily works with Go, Python, and Shell.
Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company serves 7,000+ customers including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, processing millions of metrics, logs, and traces per second through Grafana Cloud.
