Hiring: Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | US | Remote Company: Grafana Labs Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:10:47 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : C, C++, Grafana, Kubernetes, LLM, MVP, OpenTelemetry, Parquet, Prometheus, Rust, SQL, SaaS, Salesforce About the job Required Skills: •, the open-source distributed tracing backend behind Grafana Cloud Traces and Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET). Tempo makes it easy to search traces, generate metrics from spans, and connect tracing data with logs, metrics, and profiles across the Grafana stack. •Over The Next Year, You Will Help Us •Make Grafana Cloud Traces “just work” for customers by eliminating rough edges, confusing limits, and hidden failure modes. •Achieve operational excellence at scale as we grow from close to 50 cells today into triple digits this year, with autoscaling, parameterized rollouts, and aggressive toil reduction. •Evolve Tempo into a platform enabler: higher-density APIs, trace aggregation, TraceQL metrics math, and machine/LLM-friendly interfaces that downstream products and agents can build on. •Push performance further: faster query latency at hundreds of MB/s ingestion and performant 30-day query ranges to match competitors. •Prepare Tempo for an agent-driven world: larger, burstier, higher-cardinality workloads, and new categories of AI-powered workflows, such as assistant-driven triage and “why is this slow?”- style investigations. •As a Staff Engineer on Tempo, you will set technical direction on the hardest problems in our roadmap and raise the bar across the team. Compensation: •$174,986 - $209,983 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Bonus Points For Experience with tracing, OpenTelemetry, or large-scale observability systems Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!