164K–197K CAD / year
Senior Backend Engineer - Databases
BackendRemote — Canada
Published on 2026-10-14
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About this role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Grafana Labs, you will lead the technical direction for the Tempo project, focused on distributed tracing backend for Grafana Cloud. You will work on complex initiatives to enhance performance, scalability, and operational excellence.
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.
Stack
GoKubernetesOpenTelemetry
What you'll do
- Own technical direction and deliver significant projects
- Contribute to ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation
- Build APIs for users and agents
- Own outcomes against concrete SLOs
- Collaborate with product and sibling teams
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
- Participate in on-call support
- Contribute to open source
What we're looking for
- Track record of delivering complex projects
- Experience with distributed data systems
- Strong software craftsmanship
- Proficiency in Go or similar languages
- Operational mindset and experience in production services
- Customer focus and iterative problem-solving
- Strong collaboration and writing skills
Nice to have
- Experience with tracing and observability
- Designing query languages or APIs
- Columnar storage formats experience
- Experience operating SaaS infrastructure at scale
- Building for AI consumers
- Open source contributions
- Using Grafana or similar tools
Benefits
- Remote-first work culture
- 30 days annual leave
- Company-funded usage budget for AI coding tools
- Restricted Stock Units