Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | US | Remote
- Where you can live
- United States (Remote)
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-3.5
- Salary
- USD 154,445 to 185,334 per year
- Posted
- October 14, 2026
Summary from the posting
We build Tempo, the open-source distributed tracing backend behind Grafana Cloud Traces and Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET). Tempo makes it easy to search traces, generate metrics from spans, and connect tracing data with logs, metrics, and profiles across the Grafana stack.
2026 is an inflection point for Tempo. After a major architectural upgrade and the launch of TraceQL metrics, we are shifting from foundational work to product and operational excellence, and evolving Tempo from a SaaS database into a platform that powers Grafana’s next generation of observability products (App Observability, Asserts, Traces Drilldown, and AI-driven assistants).
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Grafana Labs's own career page.