Software Engineer - Platform Productivity

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is the company powering Grafana Cloud, a fully hosted observability platform used by over 10,000 organizations globally to enhance reliability, accelerate incident resolution, and optimize telemetric data management at scale. The platform is built on open source and open standards for seamless interoperability across diverse technology stacks, combining AI with observability to provide unified insights into data spread across various environments. Customers such as Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce rely on our solutions. The company is 100% remote with team members in more than 40 countries, supported by prominent investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and others.

Role Overview

The Platform Productivity team at Grafana Labs is central to supporting internal developers by delivering the tools, systems, and Kubernetes clusters essential for building, deploying, and running workloads effectively. This team focuses on automating release processes, from CI/CD pipelines to bootstrapping, ensuring secure, measurable, and streamlined software delivery for internal teams. As part of the Platform department, you'll contribute to enhancing performance, reliability, and scalability of services that move millions of logs, metrics, and traces every second.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain, enhance, and expand the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP).
• Develop and manage CI/CD platforms and automate build, release, and deployment workflows.
• Create and improve configuration management tools and software automation systems.
• Manage artifact repositories and support diverse internal teams including development and security to implement requirements effectively.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the health and availability of platform tooling.
• Contribute to defining team roadmaps including the introduction and graceful decommissioning of systems.

Future Projects

• Develop next-generation CI/CD systems.
• Enhance automation runner infrastructure, focusing on security and management.
• Improve artifact management capabilities.
• Integrate security automation within CI/CD workflows.
• Create AI-powered tools to better support internal users.

Candidate Profile

Ideal candidates enjoy collaborating with both engineering and management teams, thrive in a remote-first, consensus-driven culture, demonstrate eagerness to learn and grow, and approach software development holistically—from design and deployment to maintenance. Flexibility in using various programming languages and tools is valued, with primary language proficiency in Go. Experience operating code in production, especially with Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Tanka, is essential.

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary range for candidates based in Ireland is EUR 81,600 to EUR 97,920 annually, with final compensation reflecting experience and skill level. Additional benefits include equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), bonuses (if applicable), and a 30-day annual leave policy which incorporates 3 company-wide shutdown days for disconnection.

Company Culture & Values

• Fully remote global team fostering collaboration and shared purpose.
• Growth-oriented environment with transparent communication and innovation focus.
• Strong open source heritage and a culture of trust, autonomy, and outcome-driven work.
• Clear career progression pathways and supportive leadership.
• Emphasis on work-life balance with generous leave policies.

Equal Opportunity & Recruitment Notice

Grafana Labs is committed to diversity and equal opportunity in employment. Recruitment processes may utilize AI technologies for CV-job description matching, alongside thorough manual reviews. Applicants' personal data is handled in accordance with company privacy policies.

Application Location Constraint

Applicants must be based within Ireland time zones due to the remote nature of the role and collaboration requirements.