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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1K-5K (1039)

Founded 2014

$535M raised

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Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | US | Remote

3 weeks, 1 day ago

United States, Canada

Full-time

Lead

Backend Engineer

Software Development

C C++ Go Grafana Kubernetes 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 125

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, and discoverable APIs for human users and agents to support downstream products and external integrators.
Drive operational excellence by owning outcomes tied to SLOs, reducing toil, and improving alerting, automation, and rollout safety.
Partner closely with Product managers and sibling teams to understand Tempo consumption and unblock connected observability products.
Mentor engineers through code review, design feedback, pairing, and high-quality technical writing.
Participate in on-call for the services you build and contribute to incident response and post-incident learning.
Contribute to the open-source Tempo project by engaging the community and reviewing external contributions.
Help improve performance, including query latency, ingestion throughput, and long-range query efficiency.

Requirements

This is a remote role and candidates must be based in the US or Canada.
Track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical 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 systems.
Strong software craftsmanship with the ability to write clean, robust, performant, maintainable code.
Strong Go experience, or transferable experience in systems languages such as Rust, C, or C++.
Experience owning production services, carrying a pager, reducing toil, and working to SLOs.
Ability to break down complex problems into short feedback loops and ship pragmatic MVPs.
Clear written and verbal communication skills for a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
Experience with tracing, OpenTelemetry, or large-scale observability systems is a bonus.
Experience designing query languages, SQL/TraceQL-like engines, or programmatic APIs is a bonus.
Experience with columnar storage formats like Parquet or other analytical on-disk formats is a bonus.
Experience operating multi-tenant, multi-cell SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes is a bonus.
Experience building for AI/LLM consumers, including structured APIs, discovery endpoints, deterministic outputs, or evaluation harnesses is a bonus.
Open-source contribution or maintainership experience is a bonus.
Experience using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo on-call is a bonus.
Experience working on a fully remote, globally distributed team is a bonus.

Benefits

United States base salary range of $174,986 to $209,983 USD.
All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
100% remote, global-first work environment.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.
3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
In-person onboarding for new employees.
Career growth pathways and defined opportunities to develop.
Transparent communication and open decision-making culture.

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