Software Engineer - Platform Productivity (Remote, UK)

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs powers Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide to enhance reliability, reduce incident resolution time, and optimize telemetry management at scale. Built with open source principles and supporting interoperability, Grafana Cloud integrates AI with observability to provide unified insight across various data sources and environments. Trusted by clients like Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, Grafana Labs operates as a fully remote organization with globally distributed teams across 40+ countries, supported by prominent investors.

Role Overview

As a Software Engineer in the Platform Productivity squad, you will contribute to scaling and improving the internal engineering platform that supports application teams with tools, Kubernetes clusters, and processes for building, deploying, and operating workloads. The Platform Productivity team focuses on automating release management through CI/CD and other tooling, enabling internal developers to securely and efficiently deploy on infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in defining and executing the team's roadmap, preserving and evolving existing systems.
• Create, maintain, and enhance the Internal Engineering Platform components.
• Develop and manage CI/CD automation and pipelines.
• Automate software build, release, and deployment processes.
• Implement tooling for application configuration management and artifact handling.
• Support internal engineering teams by addressing their secure and measurable software delivery needs.
• Engage in on-call rotations to maintain and support platform tooling and services.
• Leverage modern AI-assisted coding tools for faster development and testing.

Projects on the Horizon

• Design and implementation of next-generation CI/CD systems.
• Enhancement of automation runner infrastructure with a focus on security and management.
• Upgrade of artifact management platforms.
• Security automation integration within CI/CD pipelines.
• Creation of AI-based tools to boost internal user support.

Candidate Profile

Ideal applicants are collaborative engineers comfortable working in a fully remote environment aligned with UK time zones, valuing transparent communication and teamwork. A growth mindset is essential, with enthusiasm for full software lifecycle ownership—from planning to deployment and decommissioning. Flexibility in adopting suitable programming tools, predominantly Go but including scripting for certain tasks, is important. The role demands operational experience, particularly with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and Crossplane. Prior platform engineering experience supporting developer teams in cloud environments is required, as is interest or familiarity with observability systems.

Compensation and Benefits

UK-based candidates can expect a salary range from A372,177 to A386,612, variable based on expertise and level. Additional benefits include equity awards via Restricted Stock Units, performance bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package. The company embraces a transparent, inclusive culture fostering career advancement, global collaboration, and work-life balance, including 30 annual leave days with designated company-wide shutdown days.

Equal Opportunity and Additional Information

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion across all protected characteristics. Recruitment processes may utilize AI tools for initial CV matching, with human review maintained throughout. Personal data practices conform to privacy policies provided upon application.