Staff Software Engineer - Platform, SysEng | Canada | 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, while scaling the platform to handle hundreds of millions of metrics, logs, and traces per second.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer - Platform Systems Engineering
Builds
Cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and internal developer tools for the Grafana Labs engineering organization.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineering / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems design, Cloud-native architecture (microservices, containers, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SLO/SLI definition and capacity planning, Go, Python, System design, AI-assisted development, Cross-functional stakeholder alignment
Preferred skills
Open source contribution, Kubernetes scheduling (Karpenter), Terraform, Crossplane, Tanka, Jsonnet
Technologies
Go, Python, Shell, Kubernetes, Terraform, Crossplane, Tanka, Jsonnet, Karpenter
Responsibilities
Design and ship large-scale distributed systems, manage cloud infrastructure and capacity, define and maintain SLOs/SLIs, lead technical designs and code reviews, operate production services with on-call rotations, align cross-functional stakeholders on platform maturity
Seniority
Staff, technical leadership and cross-team impact
