Staff Software Engineer - Platform, SysEng | USA | Remote
Core
Building and operating the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) to provide tools, systems, and Kubernetes clusters for application engineers to build, deploy, and run workloads at scale.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer - Platform Systems Engineering
Builds
Cloud infrastructure, capacity management, security, engineering productivity tools, and monitoring systems for the Grafana Cloud platform.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineering / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems design, Cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, microservices), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SLO/SLI definition and capacity planning, Go programming, Cross-functional stakeholder alignment, AI-assisted development workflows
Preferred skills
Open source project experience, Kubernetes scheduling (Karpenter), Terraform, Crossplane, Tanka, Jsonnet
Technologies
Go, Python, Shell, Kubernetes, Terraform, Crossplane, Karpenter, Tanka, Jsonnet
Responsibilities
Design and ship large distributed systems spanning multiple teams, define and drive reliability work (SLOs/SLIs), manage cloud-native infrastructure and operational practices, lead technical designs and code reviews, align cross-functional stakeholders in a remote environment
Seniority
Staff, technical leadership & cross-team impact
