Staff Software Engineer - Platform, SysEng | USA | Remote
Grafana Labs
$174,986–$209,983from the description
Jul 2, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level backend engineering role on the Platform SysEng squad, focused on the maturity and scalability of an internal engineering platform that provides Kubernetes clusters, tooling, and infrastructure to application teams. Day-to-day work involves cross-cutting projects such as reducing new region build timelines, capacity planning, reliability ownership, and system design across distributed cloud-native infrastructure. Suits experienced engineers with a background in large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and technical leadership across multiple teams.
Staff level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,600–13,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting explicitly prefers applicants in US EST and CST time zones, though the role is fully remote with no single metro anchor.
Go is the primary required language; the JD states 'we use Go, but Python/C/C++/Rust or similar translate well' — Go is the hard gate with the others accepted as transferable equivalents, captured in alternatives.
IaC is required as part of 'cloud-native architectures (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC)'; Terraform and Crossplane are listed under Bonus Points as specific IaC tools.
Karpenter, Terraform/Crossplane, and Tanka/Jsonnet all appear under the 'Bonus Points For' section and are preferred, not required.
Tanka and Jsonnet are listed together as interchangeable ('and/or') under Bonus Points; Terraform and Crossplane are similarly presented as alternatives with 'mixed usage'.
No minimum total years of experience is stated explicitly in the JD; seniority is assessed from the Staff title and the cross-team technical leadership scope described.
The role includes on-call rotation responsibilities as part of normal duties.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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