Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo; Fully Remote

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Boise, Ada County, Idaho, 83701, USA

Listing for: Grafana

Full Time, Remote/Work from Home position
Listed on 2026-10-30

Job specializations:

Software Development
Backend Developer, Golang, Database Engineering

Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 - 210000 USD Yearly USD 150000.00 210000.00 YEAR

Position: Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo (Fully Remote)

Lead complex, multi-month engineering projects for a distributed tracing platform.
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust APIs.

Responsibilities:

Own backend components across data ingestion, storage, query, and metrics.
Improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Requirements:

Strong background in Go, distributed systems, and production operations.
Experience with observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo.

Grafana Labs builds open-source observability tools, including the Tempo distributed tracing platform. This remote-first, globally distributed team values autonomy, transparency, and open-source collaboration.

For the Senior Backend Engineer
- Databases Tempo (Fully Remote) position at Grafana, we are reviewing applications now.

We would love to welcome a new Senior Backend Engineer
- Databases Tempo (Fully Remote) to our organisation in United States.

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- Databases Tempo (Fully Remote) role at Grafana in United States and grow with us.

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