Staff Backend Engineer

About the Role

Join our team as a Staff Backend Engineer to drive the development of Grafana Tempo, an open-source distributed tracing backend that empowers users to easily search, analyze, and connect tracing data with logs and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements.
• Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee.
• Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues.
• Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar).
• Experience delivering projects from concept to customer delivery in a self-driven manner.
• Experience developing cloud-native software or with systems engineering.
• Proficiency in writing clean, robust, and performant software.
• Familiarity with on-call rotations, SRE tasks, or Infrastructure as Code.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational or personal projects.
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a strong desire to learn.
• Experience working in a fully remote, distributed environment.

About the Team

The Tempo team focuses on backend development, collaborating with customers and Grafana Cloud teams to deliver Tempo for both on-premises and cloud environments. Key projects involve creating and operating distributed systems for tracing ingestion and queries, developing TraceQL, and enhancing the metrics-generator.