Software Engineer - Platform InfraCore | USA | Remote

<div class="content-intro"><p>Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with <a href="https://grafana.com/products/cloud/">Grafana Cloud</a> or self-managed with the <a href="https://grafana.com/products/enterprise/">Grafana Enterprise Stack</a>, both featuring scalable metrics (<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/mimir/">Grafana Mimir</a>), logs (<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/loki/">Grafana Loki</a>), and traces (<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/">Grafana Tempo</a>).</p> <p>We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.</p> <p>You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.</p></div><p><strong>This is a remote opportunity, and we would be interested in applicants from USA time zones only at this time. </strong></p> <h2>Senior Software Engineer - Platform InfraCore</h2> <h4><strong>The Opportunity: </strong></h4> <p><strong>About our Platform:</strong><br>Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and, of course, do it efficiently and effectively.</p> <p>The Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) delivered by the Platform group provides application engineers with the tools, systems and Kubernetes clusters they need to build, deploy and run their workloads. Platform roles at Grafana Labs have an eye for engineers with a passion for performance and reliability, and who enjoy taking projects from conception to production. We organize ourselves into squads to allow focus on: cloud infrastructure and capacity management; security; engineering productivity; monitoring and sustainability; and US Federal compliance.</p> <p>Because we deploy production services, we have on-call rotations to ensure the health of the system. Everyone at Grafana Labs tries to incorporate and use our product line up into their day-to-day, so being on call is an important way to understand our system and how people use our products.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Be Doing:</strong></p> <p>We are hiring for the Platform InfraCore squad. This squad provides and owns automation of the provisioning of CSP resources, including networking, Kubernetes clusters and specific CSP resources required by our application teams. </p> <p>We’re part of a Platform Engineering group that manages infrastructure for the teams that are building some of the most cherished Platform tools - Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope to name a few.</p> <p>We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction.<br><br>We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards ... (truncated, view full listing at source)