Senior Software Engineer, Platform Monitoring | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs; Kirkcaldy; Remote; GBP 89,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in the UK is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, specializing in platform monitoring. This remote position emphasizes CI/CD automation and collaboration with internal teams. Candidates should have strong experience in Go and familiarity with containers and cloud environments. An autonomy-driven culture encourages innovation, with a compensation range of GBP 89,083 - GBP 106,899.

Benefits

30 days of annual leave

Flexible working hours

In-person onboarding

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering/software development experience within a Platform group.
• Experience in a cloud environment.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage CI/CD platform and tooling effectively.
• Maintain and improve the Internal Engineering Platform.
• Support cross-functional teams in implementing requirements.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Flexibility in software engineering

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Monitoring | UK | Remote

United Kingdom (Remote)

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack , both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir ), logs (Grafana Loki ), and traces (Grafana Tempo ).

We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

This is a remote position and we're considering candidates in the UK.

The Opportunity:

We are hiring for the Platform Productivity squad. The squad is mostly responsible for helping our internal engineers release their software onto our infrastructure, in secure and measurable ways. They lead automation of the release processes (anywhere from CI/CD to bootstrapping) and help our internal engineering teams get on board with them using ‘golden path’ techniques, but also helping edge cases and making sure that teams can get the most out of our tools.

At the end of the day, we’re the Platform Team for the teams that are building some of the most cherished observability tools– from Grafana, Mimir and Loki, to Tempo.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The squad is responsible for setting its own roadmap, and as a part of the team you'll have a part to play in that process. You'll help us maintain, improve and extend what we already have. You'll be involved in choosing what we focus on next and, just as importantly, when and how to gracefully sunset systems which are no longer needed. Your responsibilities will also include helping the team to design, compare, and choose appropriate solutions for (at least some) of the following things:

• Development and maintenance of our Internal Engineering Platform (IEP)
• CI/CD platform management and development
• Build, release and deployment automation
• Application configuration management tooling
• Working with diverse internal teams, from application development to security, to support implementation of their requirements
• Being part of an on-call rotation to support Platform tooling

What Makes You a Great Fit:

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.

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, looking at developer feedback, testing and deployment, all the way through to decommissioning. We appreciate engineers who enjoy looking at the big picture, and also notice the details of the brush strokes. You're a flexible software engineer. In a typical day, we might spend time responding to incidents, integrating existing systems, or designing and implementing our own systems. While our primary language is Go, we value flexibility and we'll choose the best tool for the job, even if that is a shell script.

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 grafana/tanka .

• Engineering/software development experience within a Platform group delivering services to internal engineering teams
• Experience working in a cloud environment
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/Crossplane.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes administration - very cool if experience with Tanka .
• Experience/Interest in implementing, integrating, and maintaining observability systems and processes

In the UK, the base compensation range for this role is GBP 89,083 - GBP 106,899. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here .

*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture -As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
• Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.

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