Grafana

Grafana is the open observability platform providing analytics, monitoring, and visualization solutions with a focus on user control and cost efficiency.

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Founded 2014

$535M raised

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Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | Canada | Remote

1 week, 5 days ago

United States, Canada

Full-time

Lead

Backend Engineer

Software Development

C C++ Go Grafana Kubernetes LLM Microservices OpenTelemetry Prometheus Rust SQL

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Grafana

Grafana is the open observability platform providing analytics, monitoring, and visualization solutions with a focus on user control and cost efficiency.

IT Services

1K-5K

Founded 2014

$535M raised

View All Jobs 154

Description

Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, including trace aggregation APIs, autoscaling cells, customer limits, and query engine improvements.
Own the architecture of core Tempo components, including ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation.
Design structured, deterministic APIs that work well for humans, agents, and downstream product integrations.
Drive operational excellence by owning SLO outcomes, reducing toil, improving alerts, and pushing toward Zero Ops.
Partner closely with Product and sibling teams to align Tempo capabilities with how other Grafana products consume it.
Mentor engineers through code review, design feedback, pairing, and technical writing.
Participate in on-call for the services you help build and contribute to incident response and post-incident learning.
Engage with the open-source community by reviewing external contributions and helping steer Tempo in the open.

Requirements

Demonstrated technical leadership on complex, multi-quarter initiatives spanning design, delivery, and operations.
Substantial hands-on experience building and operating distributed data systems in production, such as ingestion pipelines, storage engines, or query execution.
Strong software craftsmanship with the ability to write clean, robust, performant code.
Strong experience in Go, or deep experience in another systems language such as Rust, C, or C++.
Operational experience owning production services, carrying a pager, reducing toil, and working toward SLOs.
Ability to break complex problems into short feedback loops and deliver pragmatic MVPs iteratively.
Clear communication and collaboration skills in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
Preferred: experience with tracing, OpenTelemetry, or large-scale observability systems.
Preferred: experience designing query languages, SQL/TraceQL-like engines, or APIs intended for programmatic consumption by services or agents.
Preferred: experience with columnar storage formats such as Parquet or other purpose-built analytical on-disk formats.
Preferred: experience operating multi-tenant, multi-cell SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes.
Preferred: experience building for AI/LLM consumers, including structured APIs, metadata/discovery endpoints, deterministic outputs, and evaluation harnesses.
Preferred: open-source contribution or maintainership experience and comfort engaging a community in public.
Preferred: experience using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo on-call in a prior role or homelab.
Preferred: experience working in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Benefits

Remote-first, 100% remote global work environment.
Canada compensation range of $186,368 to $223,642 CAD for this role.
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) included in all roles.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.
3 shutdown days included within annual leave to help the team disconnect.
In-person onboarding for new hires.
Career growth pathways and opportunities to develop your career.
Access to modern AI coding assistants with a company-funded usage budget, within security guidelines.

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