Remote Staff Software Engineer, Tempo Platform & Tracing

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Tempo tracing backend, transforming it into a high‑density, scalable platform for Grafana Cloud. You will own architecture for ingestion, storage, query, and metrics, and drive design reviews to support Tempo as a platform enabler.

You will focus on multi‑quarter initiatives, such as trace aggregation APIs and autoscaling, while mentoring engineers and participating in on‑call rotation.