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

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Kubernetes/Helm): Develop and maintain tooling for deploying and operating observability ingest components like Grafana Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector with an accent on Kubernetes Helm charts, cross-platform support, and GitOps integrations. Focus on designing robust user-facing tools, ensuring backward compatibility, and contributing to open source projects for scalable observability deployment across thousands of clusters.

Remote from Spain, Germany, the UK or Sweden

EUR 97,034 - 116,441 (Germany)

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first open-source observability platform with millions of users and enterprise customers like Bloomberg and JPMorgan Chase.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain tools for deployment, configuration, and operation of Grafana Alloy, OpenTelemetry Collector, and related components powering 1.8M instances.
• Own and evolve Helm chart ecosystem across 10k+ clusters and 300k nodes, ensuring robustness and user-friendliness.
• Build cross-platform tooling for Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, and macOS.
• Support GitOps integrations with ArgoCD, Terraform, Flux.
• Collaborate with support, product, and field teams to address customer pain points.
• Contribute to open source projects like Grafana Alloy, OpenTelemetry, Helm, and represent at meetups/conferences.

Requirements

• Comfortable in remote-first culture with async communication across time zones
• 4+ years software engineering experience (Go preferred; Python, Rust welcome)
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience: deploying, operating, debugging with Helm
• Experience building/maintaining external tooling with focus on API/UX, compatibility, upgrades
• Strong testing at unit, integration, end-to-end levels

Nice to have

• Grafana Alloy or OpenTelemetry Collector experience
• Helm charts authoring/maintenance
• GitOps tooling (Terraform, ArgoCD, Flux)
• CKA/CKAD certification
• Developer-facing CLIs/configuration tooling
• Grafana ecosystem familiarity (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope)
• Open source contributions

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote global culture with collaboration, transparency, autonomy, trust
• 30 days annual leave + 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
• AI coding assistants with company budget (GPT, Claude, Gemini)
• RSUs for all roles
• In-person onboarding
• Open source roots, innovation-driven, empowered teams