Senior Backend Engineer, Databases, Tempo

Summary

Join our team at Grafana Labs and contribute to the development of Tempo, an open source distributed tracing backend. As a remote-first organization, we value creativity, diverse perspectives, and independent attitudes. We're looking for motivated self-starters with experience in programming languages, project delivery, and cloud-based software development.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

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 skillset by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)