Senior Backend Engineer - Observability Ingest - Kubernetes Operator/Helm Chart
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Spain, Germany, the UK or SwedenFull-TimeSenior
Salary775444 - 930533 SEK per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 4 years of professional software engineering experience
- Required Skills
- PythonKubernetesGoRustTerraformHelm
Requirements
- Comfortable working in a remote-first culture; communication is key.
- Believe that great tooling is a force multiplier and take pride in boosting user experience.
- Strong communicator, clear in code review, helpful in customer-facing issues, and comfortable working async across time zones.
- Love writing tests and treat them as a core part of the design process.
- Comfortable going deep on a platform problem (Kubernetes scheduling edge case, Windows path separator bug, Terraform provider quirk).
- Engage with the open source community and care about the health of the projects you depend on.
- 4 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least one major language (Go preferred; Python, Rust, and others welcome).
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience: deploying, operating, and debugging workloads in production environments, including familiarity with Helm and the Kubernetes resource model.
- Experience building or maintaining tooling for external users or customers - thought carefully about API/UX design, backward compatibility, and upgrade paths.
- Comfortable writing and maintaining automated tests at multiple levels - unit, integration, and end-to-end.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain user-facing tools that support the deployment, configuration and operation of Grafana Alloy, the OpenTelemetry Collector, and related components.
- Own and evolve the Helm chart ecosystem, writing robust, well-tested charts that are a pleasure for users to use.
- Build and maintain tooling that works across platforms: Kubernetes-first, but rock-solid on Linux, Windows, and macOS, too.
- Support infrastructure-as-code integrations using ArgoCD, Terraform, Flux, and other GitOps utilities.
- Collaborate closely with support, product, and field engineering to understand real customer pain points and translate them into durable tool improvements.
- Work in the open: communicate progress transparently, review peers' code thoughtfully, and help raise the technical bar for the whole team.
- Contribute upstream to open source projects including Grafana Alloy, OpenTelemetry, and Helm community charts.
- Represent Grafana Labs in meetups, and conferences and social media forums.
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