Senior Platform Engineer - Platform Metal

Grafana Labs
Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 82,988 - 99,586 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Consensus-building","Distributed systems thinking","Holistic development"]

Build and operate the Foundations “Metal” platform that provisions Kubernetes and infrastructure on bare metal, enabling internal teams to run workloads outside public cloud. Own the Metal environment and cluster networking/scheduling, maintain Crossplane and Terraform modules, and partner with Grafana Cloud application teams to deliver the capabilities they need. Work in a remote-first, consensus-driven environment using Go, Python, Shell, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Crossplane.

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Senior Platform Engineer - Platform Metal

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Job Summary

Build and operate the Foundations “Metal” platform that provisions Kubernetes and infrastructure on bare metal, enabling internal teams to run workloads outside public cloud. Own the Metal environment and cluster networking/scheduling, maintain Crossplane and Terraform modules, and partner with Grafana Cloud application teams to deliver the capabilities they need. Work in a remote-first, consensus-driven environment using Go, Python, Shell, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Crossplane.
Location: Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage the physical “Metal” environment from bare metal to Kubernetes.
  • •Operate and maintain cluster networking components including load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, cross-cluster communication, and routing protocols.
  • •Own scheduling and autoscaling capabilities for the platform.
  • •Maintain Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules for CSP resources, including versioning and compatibility for Crossplane/Terraform and providers.
  • •Partner with Grafana Cloud application teams to understand needs and invest in the right platform capabilities.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 82,988 - 99,586 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:RsusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience operating and managing workloads on Kubernetes, including scheduling and autoscaling.
  • •Strong hands-on infrastructure and cloud-native skills with Terraform and/or Crossplane, including versioning and provider/core compatibility.
  • •Programming and engineering experience in Go, with comfort across Go, Python, and Shell for platform development.
  • •Datacenter experience and participation in an on-call rotation.
  • •Familiarity with distributed systems and cluster networking components (load balancing, NAT, DNS, CNIs, routing).
Experience:Open sourceObservabilityKubernetesCloud infrastructure
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationConsensus-buildingDistributed systems thinkingHolistic development
Tech Stack:KubernetesGoPythonShellTerraformCrossplaneCrossplane compositionsCrossplane providersCluster-APITinkerbellTalosCephAWSEKSGCPGKEAzureAKSTankaJsonnet

Company Brief

Grafana Labs
Develops open-source and commercial observability tools, including Grafana for metrics visualization, Loki for log aggregation, and Tempo for tracing, enabling organizations to monitor, analyze, and visualize system performance and telemetry data.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2014
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