
Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | US | Remote
Grafana Labs seeks a Senior Engineer on Tempo, the open-source distributed tracing backend powering Grafana Cloud Traces. The role (remote; US & Canada candidates) owns design and delivery of large technical projects across ingestion, storage, query, metrics generation, and operational excellence (SLOs, autoscaling, rollout automation). Tempo is implemented in Go; work includes improving query performance, designing agent/LLM-friendly APIs (TraceQL/metrics), operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure (Kubernetes), contributing in the open, and participating in on-call and incident response. Posted US annual compensation range: USD 154,445–185,334.