
Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | US | Remote
Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Backend Engineer on the Tempo team to lead multi-quarter initiatives and own core components (ingestion, storage, query, metrics generation). Responsibilities include designing APIs (TraceQL/agent-friendly), driving operational excellence against SLOs, improving query and ingestion performance, autoscaling and multi-cell operations, mentoring engineers, participating on-call, and contributing to the open-source project. Role is remote; candidates sought in the United States and Canada. US compensation range: $174,986–$209,983 USD/year.








