Senior Backend Engineer, Tempo — Remote (US/Canada)
Summary
Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to work on Tempo, its distributed tracing backend. The person drives Tempo's architecture, owns critical components, scales it from a SaaS database into a broader observability platform, and shapes APIs, all as a fully remote role across the US and Canada.
Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Tempo Engineer for a remote role spanning Canada and the US. You will drive architectural direction for Tempo, Grafana’s tracing backend, and help scale Tempo from a SaaS database to a platform powering next-generation observability products.
You’ll lead complex projects, own critical Tempo components, and shape APIs for human and agent use. This fully remote role emphasizes collaboration, code quality, and open-source involvement.