Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo
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Grafana LabsObservability / SaaS
This is a remote opportunity, and we would be interested in applicants located in Spain, Sweden, UK, Ireland or Germany.Full-TimeStaff
SalaryEUR 94,025 - EUR 112,830
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- KubernetesC++GoRustDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Proven track record of technical leadership on complex, multi-quarter initiatives.
- Substantial experience building and operating distributed data systems (ingestion, storage, query execution).
- Expertise in Go, or deep experience in other systems languages (Rust, C, C++).
- Strong software craftsmanship with a focus on clean, robust, and performant code.
- Operational mindset with experience owning production services and managing SLOs.
- Demonstrated ability to drive design reviews and make performance-cost-complexity trade-offs.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to lead through design documentation and collaborative reviews.
- Ability to work effectively in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout.
- Own the architecture of core Tempo components including ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation.
- Design structured, deterministic, and discoverable APIs for humans and agents.
- Drive operational excellence and own outcomes against concrete SLOs.
- Partner with Product and sibling teams to ship unblocking features.
- Mentor engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
- Contribute to open-source development and community engagement.
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