Senior Software Engineer - Platform Federal
Grafana Labs
- USA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Deploy and manage platforms supporting Grafana Labs' US Federal customers
- Provision and administer the core infrastructure platform, Kubernetes and CSP resources.
- Deploy and operate our products on top of the platform in concert with the application teams.
- Develop, maintain and improve the monitoring, automation and supporting services needed to align Federal operations with our strongly DevOps, high ownership and autonomy culture.
- As the team grows, mentor peers and assist with technical product leadership and roadmap planning.
- You enjoy working with engineers, as well as with the management structures that are there to support you and enable you and your team to do your very best.
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus, you can contribute to a discussion but then commit to the team decision.
- As such, being such a highly distributed company, means we would love someone who is keen on working with distributed systems, too.
- You are eager to learn and grow. There is a lot of room for growth and development, and the team has quite a lot of knowledge to share for those who are wanting to learn.
- You approach development holistically. The team owns the full life cycle of our code; from writing design docs, to looking at developer feedback, and integration testing. We appreciate engineers who enjoy looking at the big picture, and also notice the details of the brush strokes. The Platform team mainly works with Go, Python, and Shell.
- You have experience with operating your code. Since a lot of operators and developers use our software, having some grounding in both of these spaces really helps us with building better platforms for our users. Kubernetes and Docker are what we use, mostly. We also work with a lot of Infrastructure as Code, so be sure to check out
- Commercial experience as a site reliability, network or software engineer in managed k8s, Cloud and Linux environments, especially with distributed architecture.
- Programming experience -- we use Go, Jsonnet, Python and Shell.
- Experience with containers and orchestration -- we use Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with IaC or config management, we use Terraform, Helm, Tanka and Jsonnet.
- Experience with dashboards and monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
- Experience operating FedRAMP, DISA IL2-6 or other relevant US Federal accredited products.
- Commercial experience operating on AWS GovCloud and other CSP alternatives.
- Commercial experience in designing and managing networking in a Virtual Private Cloud.
- Commercial experience of network services, including load balancers, firewalls and DNS.
- Experience working in remote and/or distributed business environments, demonstrating self motivation and communication skills.