Staff Software Engineer - Platform, SysEng | USA | Remote

Requirements

• With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions.
• Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost.
• 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 their workloads.
• We’re part of a Platform Engineering group that manages infrastructure for the teams that are building some of the most cherished tools - Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope to name a few.
• The team owns the full life cycle of our code; from writing design docs, to looking at developer feedback, and integration testing.
• The Platform team mainly works with Go, Python, and Shell. You have
• experience with operating your code .
• 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. 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. You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6,
• experience in system design. Deep understanding of tradeoffs around latency, consistency, availability, scaling and cost.
• experience with cloud-native architectures (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC) and the operational practices that keep them healthy.
• Excellent coding and design skills. You write clear, maintainable, well-tested code and can lead technical designs — we use Go, but Python/C/C++/Rust or similar translate well.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development. We embrace AI and agentic development so we expect you to be curious and comfortable using AI-powered developer tools and ideally have practical
• You’ve worked in or on open source, or other community-based projects previously. At Grafana Labs, “OSS is in our DNA”.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and projects like Karpenter .
• Experience with Tanka and/or Jsonnet .
• Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings.