Remote Staff Software Engineer: Tempo Databases

Grafana Labs

España

Remote

EUR 94,025 - 112,830

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Grafana Labs in Spain (Remote) is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape Tempo and its data APIs, helping Grafana Cloud scale for millions of users. You will own multi-quarter initiatives and drive operational excellence with measurable SLOs and automation.

You must have deep systems experience and strong Go skills, plus the ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate across a remote, global team. You will design APIs for humans and agents and contribute to open source while partnering with

Qualifications

Technical leadership in multi-quarter initiatives
Deep systems experience building/operating distributed data systems
Go proficiency or strong experience with Go and systems languages
Operational mindset with focus on SLOs, toil reduction, and automation
Clear communication in remote, asynchronous teams
Customer-focused pragmatism and practical problem solving
Leadership through writing, reviews, and collaboration

Responsibilities

Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout.
Own the architecture of core Tempo components: ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation.
Design APIs for humans and agents.
Drive operational excellence with concrete SLOs and automated tooling.
Partner with Product and sibling teams to understand consumption and unblock them.
Mentor engineers through code reviews and design feedback.
Participate in on-call for the services you help build.
Contribute to open source and steer Tempo in the open.