Staff Software Engineer

What You’ll Be Doing

We are hiring for the Platform SysEng squad. This is an accelerated, cross-cutting squad that is focused on the maturity and scalability of the platform. Currently, SysEng is working across engineering with a goal of reducing new region build timelines to meet customer demands.

We’re part of a Platform Engineering group that manages infrastructure for the teams that are building some of the most cherished tools - Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope to name a few.

Responsibilities

• Deliver large distributed systems with technical leadership across multiple teams.
• Design systems with tradeoffs around latency, consistency, availability, scaling and cost.
• Work with cloud-native architectures (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC) and operational practices.
• Define SLOs/SLIs, perform capacity planning, tune performance, and drive reliability work end-to-end.
• Write clear, maintainable, well-tested code; lead technical designs.
• Use AI-powered developer tools (e.g. GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro) for prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation.
• Align cross-functional stakeholders, set priorities and drive outcomes in a remote-first environment.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

• Proven delivery of large distributed systems with evidence of technical leadership and impact.
• Demonstrable experience in system design and understanding of tradeoffs (latency, consistency, availability, scaling, cost).
• Hands-on cloud and platform experience with cloud-native architectures (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC) and operational practices.
• Experience owning reliability and performance (SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, performance tuning).
• Excellent coding and design skills (Go preferred; Python, C, C++, Rust or similar translate well).
• Comfort with AI-assisted development and folding AI tools into team workflows.
• Ability to influence without authority and drive outcomes remotely.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with open source or community-based projects.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and projects like Karpenter.
• Terraform and/or Crossplane experience.
• Experience with Tanka and/or Jsonnet.

Compensation & Benefits

In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is USD 174986 - USD 209983. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset. Benefits include equity (RSUs), bonus (if applicable) and other benefits.