Senior Backend Engineer - Observability Ingest - Kubernetes Operator/Helm Chart

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Grafana LabsObservability Platform

Spain, Germany, the UK or SwedenFull-TimeSenior

Salary775444 - 930533 SEK per year

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Comfortable working in a remote-first culture; communication is key.
Believes that great tooling is a force multiplier and takes pride in boosting user experience.
Strong communicator, clear in code review, helpful in customer-facing issues, and comfortable working async across time zones.
Loves writing tests and treats them as a core part of the design process.
Comfortable going deep on a platform problem (Kubernetes scheduling, Windows path separator bug, Terraform provider quirk).
Engages with the open source community and cares about the health of the projects.
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 - thoughtful about API/UX design, backward compatibility, and upgrade paths.
Comfortable writing and maintaining automated tests at multiple levels (unit, integration, and end-to-end).

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 our Helm chart ecosystem run on more than 10k clusters and 300k nodes, writing charts that are robust, well-tested, and 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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