Senior Backend Engineer - Tempo Platform (Remote)

Grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead Tempo development, focusing on high-scale tracing backends and APIs. You will own key components, drive performance improvements, and collaborate with product teams across the Grafana stack.

Remote role for candidates in the US and Canada, with a strong emphasis on OSS contribution, mentorship, and incident response. Experience with Go and distributed systems is essential.

Qualifications

• Must be proficient in building and operating distributed data systems.
• Strong ownership of multi-month projects from design to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own major Tempo components: ingestion, storage, query, metrics.
• Build human- and agent-facing APIs for Tempo.
• Contribute to OSS and engage with the community.
• Mentor engineers and participate in on-call and post-incident reviews.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Technical ownership

Code reviews

Mentoring

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead Tempo development, focusing on high-scale tracing backends and APIs. You will own key components, drive performance improvements, and collaborate with product teams across the Grafana stack.

Remote role for candidates in the US and Canada, with a strong emphasis on OSS contribution, mentorship, and incident response. Experience with Go and distributed systems is essential.