154K–185K USD / year
Senior Backend Engineer - Databases
BackendRemote — US
Published on 2026-10-14
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About this role
As a Senior Engineer on Tempo, you will take ownership of complex technical projects and drive the development of the backend infrastructure for Grafana's observability products. Your role will involve improving operational excellence, enhancing APIs, and mentoring other engineers.
About the company
Grafana Labs builds open-source and commercial observability tools for metrics, logs, and traces, centered on Grafana dashboards. It helps teams monitor infrastructure and applications and investigate incidents.
The team
Tempo team
Stack
Godistributed systemsAPIs
What you'll do
- Lead technical direction on key features
- Deliver multi-month technical projects
- Build APIs for human and agent interactions
- Ensure operational excellence against SLOs
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
What we're looking for
- Experience with distributed data systems
- Strong software development skills
- Proficient in Go or other systems languages
- Operational experience with production services
- Customer-focused problem-solving skills
Nice to have
- Experience with tracing and observability systems
- Familiarity with query languages and APIs
- Background in analytical workloads
- Open-source contributions
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave
- Company-funded budget for AI tools
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)