Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo

Grafana Labs · IT

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Full TimePosted Aug 18, 2026

Source: Grafana Labs

AT A GLANCE
Eligibility
Not available
Category
IT
Salary
Not disclosed
Employment
Full Time
Experience
Staff
Posted
Aug 18, 2026

This role’s source listing does not include Hungary as an eligible location.

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead development on Tempo, their distributed tracing backend, available for candidates in Spain, Sweden, UK, Ireland, or Germany.

As a Staff Engineer on the Tempo team, you will drive technical direction for a mission-critical distributed data system, focusing on operational excellence and platform scalability. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to evolve Tempo's architecture, improve query performance, and ensure reliability for Grafana's observability platform at scale.

Why You’ll Love This Role

Remote role in Spain, Sweden, UK, Ireland or Germany
Staff level engineering position
Focus on distributed tracing backend (Tempo)
High-scale observability platform development
100% Remote global company

What You’ll Bring

Proven technical leadership in multi-quarter complex initiatives
Substantial experience building and operating distributed data systems in production
Strong software craftsmanship with clean and performant code
Proficiency in Go or significant experience in other systems languages like Rust, C, or C++
Operational mindset with experience owning production services and managing SLOs

What You’ll Get

Benefits not specified in the listing

About the Company

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open-source observability platform Grafana, used by millions of users worldwide to manage metrics, logs, and traces. The company operates as a fully remote, globally distributed organization with over 1,600 team members.

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