Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Sweden | Remote

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Set technical direction on the hardest problems in the Tempo roadmap
• ▹Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, e.g. trace aggregation APIs or autoscaling cells
• ▹Make Grafana Cloud Traces just work for customers by eliminating rough edges and hidden failure modes
• ▹Achieve operational excellence at scale, growing from close to 50 cells today into triple digits
• ▹Evolve Tempo into a platform: higher-density APIs, trace aggregation, machine/LLM-friendly interfaces
• ▹Push query performance further at high ingestion rates and 30-day query ranges

Requirements

• ▹Staff-level engineering experience designing and architecting distributed systems or databases
• ▹Experience with tracing or observability systems at scale
• ▹Able to lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from framing through rollout
• ▹Ownership of architecture in complex, scaling systems
• ▹Remote from Spain, Sweden, UK, Ireland or Germany

Soft skills

About the company

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud and the Grafana Cloud platform; a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, trusted by more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers.