Senior Software Engineer - Tempo

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Tempo team, focusing on backend development for our distributed tracing backend. As part of this role, you'll be working on Tempo, an open-source project that's a key component of Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET).

Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with the team to deliver new features and improvements
• Leading projects from concept to implementation
• Designing, building, and maintaining critical systems
• Influencing the product roadmap
• Participating in on-call rotations
• Supporting and mentoring team members

We're looking for someone who is:

• A self-starter with a bias towards action
• Customer-focused
• Pragmatic in approach to complex challenges
• Collaborative and communicative

Key requirements:

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but Python, C, C++, Rust are also valuable)
• Experience in delivering end-to-end projects
• Experience with cloud software development or systems engineering
• Ability to write clean, robust, and performant software
• Familiarity with on-call duties and operations/SRE tasks

This is a remote position open to candidates in Spain, Germany, Sweden, or the UK. The role offers competitive compensation, equity, bonuses, and comprehensive benefits.

Join us in developing cutting-edge observability tools used by major organizations worldwide. At Grafana Labs, we value creativity, diverse perspectives, and the opportunity to make a significant impact on our products and the industry.