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Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | US | Remote

3 months, 3 weeks 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

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
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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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