Remote 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 position, we're looking for motivated self-starters with experience in programming languages like Go or Python. Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, lead projects from concept to implementation, and take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.

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
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

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)