Senior Backend Engineer - Databases, Tempo

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Tempo team at Grafana Labs. Tempo is an open source distributed tracing backend, a key component of Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET). In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements
• Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support
• Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee
• Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues
• Expand your skillset by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase

We are a remote-first organization, communicating through video calls and asynchronous documents. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with strong communication skills, customer focus, and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving.

Requirements:

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but Python, C, C++, Rust or similar are transferable)
• Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering to product shipping
• Experience with Cloud software development or systems engineering
• Ability to write clean, robust, and performant software

Nice to haves:

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Grafana and Prometheus
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Experience with on-call duties and operations/SRE tasks

Join us in developing cutting-edge observability solutions used by prominent global organizations!