Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | Canada | Remote

Grafana Labs · Canada (Remote)

Grafana Labs is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | Canada | Remote in Canada (Remote). The role focuses on databases & storage.

Key responsibilities

• Own the architecture of core Tempo components: ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation.
• After a major architectural upgrade and the launch of TraceQL metrics, we are shifting from foundational work to product and operational excellence, and evolving Tempo from a SaaS database into a platform that powers Grafana’s next generation of observability products (App Observability, Asserts, Traces Drilldown, and AI-driven assistants).
• Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, e.g., trace aggregation APIs, Limitless Tempo, autoscaling cells and customer limits, or query engine improvements.

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