Senior Backend Engineer - Tempo Platform & AI APIs

Grafana; United States; À distance; USD 190 000 - 230 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Vacation 30 days over year

Healthcare stipend for US/CA/UK/DE/IN/

Retirement planning with employer pot

$1,500 learning stipend

Remote-first with coworking space upto

Headspace subscription

Employee Assistance Program

Paid parental leave

Résumé du poste

Grafana is seeking a Senior Engineer for Tempo to own technical direction on the toughest problems as we scale Tempo into a platform with higher-density APIs and AI-friendly interfaces for downstream products and agents.

You will drive multi-month initiatives from problem framing through rollout, contribute to design reviews, and own major Tempo components across ingestion, storage, query, and metrics. This is a fully remote, highly collaborative role.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience building and operating distributed data systems in production.
• Strong Go development skills; knowledge of Rust or C/C++ a plus.
• Experience with tracing, OpenTelemetry, or large-scale observability systems.
• Experience designing APIs and query languages for programmatic consumption.
• Ability to work in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Responsabilités

• Own technical direction on Tempo's hardest problems and drive multi-month initiatives from framing to rollout.
• Deliver major components of Tempo: ingestion, storage, query, and metrics; contribute to design docs.
• Build stable APIs for humans and agents; enable AI-assisted workflows and agent-scale workloads.
• Collaborate with product and other teams; participate in on-call and incident post-mortems.
• Contribute to open source Tempo and engage with the community.

Connaissances

Go

Rust

C/C++

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

TraceQL

SQL

Parquet

AI/LLM interfaces

Distributed systems

Outils

Kubernetes

Parquet

OpenTelemetry

Description du poste

Grafana is seeking a Senior Engineer for Tempo to own technical direction on the toughest problems as we scale Tempo into a platform with higher-density APIs and AI-friendly interfaces for downstream products and agents.

You will drive multi-month initiatives from problem framing through rollout, contribute to design reviews, and own major Tempo components across ingestion, storage, query, and metrics. This is a fully remote, highly collaborative role.