Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Platform

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced software or site reliability engineer to join the Grafana Labs R&D team. We are hiring for the Cloud Platform squad that provides the platform on which Grafana Cloud delivers its services.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve Grafana Labs’ provisioning and release tools, allowing rapid deployment of infrastructure and services
• Maintain and improve Grafana Labs’ monitoring tools and best practices to maximise system uptime and health
• Provision and administer the core infrastructure platform, Kubernetes
• Provision and administer the required Cloud Service Provider resources
• Work with other engineering teams to help them deploy and run their software in production

Requirements:

• Commercial experience as a site reliability, network and/or software engineer in Cloud and Linux environments, especially with distributed architectures
• Programming experience — we use Go, Python and Shell
• Experience with containers and orchestration — we use Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code and/or configuration management — we use Terraform and Tanka/Jsonnet
• Experience with dashboards and monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus

Nice to have:

• Commercial experience in designing and managing networking in a Virtual Private Cloud
• Commercial experience of network services, including load balancers, firewalls and DNS
• Commercial experience of layer 2 and layer 3 networking, including VLANs and VPNs
• Commercial experience of the IP protocol suite, including BGP and NAT
• Experience working in remote and/or distributed business environments, demonstrating self motivation and communication skills