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- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
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Distributed Systems @ 6
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IaC @ 4
Kubernetes @ 4
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Microservices @ 4
Python @ 6
Rust @ 6
Technical Leadership @ 6
Terraform @ 4
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
Grafana Labs is hiring for a remote Staff Platform SysEng role.
Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data and serves it to dashboards and alerting tools. The Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) delivered by the Platform department provides application engineers with the tools, systems, and Kubernetes clusters they need to build, deploy, and run workloads.
This role is part of the Platform SysEng squad, focused on the maturity and scalability of the platform—especially reducing new region build timelines to meet customer demands. Because production services are deployed, there are on-call rotations.
As a remote-first company, you will work in a highly distributed environment, collaborating by consensus and communicating clearly across engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Work in the Platform SysEng squad to improve platform maturity and scalability.
- Participate in efforts to reduce new region build timelines.
- Own the full life cycle of platform code, including writing design docs, incorporating developer feedback, and integration testing.
- Define reliability and performance work end-to-end, including SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
- Contribute to operating code, with grounding in both operator and developer needs.
Requirements
- Proven delivery of large distributed systems, including shipping and operating complex systems spanning multiple teams with evidence of technical leadership and impact.
- Demonstrable experience in system design with deep understanding of tradeoffs around latency, consistency, availability, scaling, and cost.
- Hands-on cloud and platform experience with cloud-native architectures including microservices, containers/Kubernetes, and IaC.
- Reliability and performance ownership: comfortable defining SLOs/SLIs, doing capacity planning, tuning performance, and driving reliability work end-to-end.
- Excellent coding and design skills; clear, maintainable, well-tested code and ability to lead technical designs. Go is used, but Python/C/C++/Rust or similar translates.
- Comfort with AI-assisted development and ideally practical experience folding AI-powered developer tools into a team workflow.
- Ability to influence without authority: align cross-functional stakeholders, set priorities, and drive outcomes in a remote-first environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication across engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Bonus Points For
- Experience working in or on open source or other community-based projects.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and projects like Karpenter.
- Terraform and/or Crossplane experience.
- Experience with Tanka and/or Jsonnet.
Compensation & Rewards
In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is USD 174,986 - USD 209,983. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits listed on the Grafana careers site.
All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).