Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Germany | Remote

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▸Ingeniero de software de alto nivel enfocado en bases de datos distribuidas para trazas en Tempo.
▸Día a día: liderar iniciativas técnicas, arquitectar soluciones a gran escala y mejorar rendimiento y escalabilidad.
▸Hecho destacado: trabajar en la evolución de Tempo hacia una plataforma de observabilidad impulsada por IA y agentes.

Fluency in English is required for collaboration across global teams.

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¿Qué piden?

✓Experiencia demostrable en sistemas de bases de datos distribuidas o almacenamiento de trazas.
✓Capacidad para liderar iniciativas técnicas de múltiples cuatrimestres desde el planteamiento hasta el despliegue.
✓Conocimiento profundo de arquitecturas de sistemas a gran escala con enfoque en operaciones y rendimiento.
✓Experiencia con lenguajes como Go y entornos de producción en cloud.
✓Habilidad para colaborar en un entorno remoto global y de código abierto.
✓Compromiso con la calidad del código, la documentación y la mejora continua.

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Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X . We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. This is a remote opportunity, and we would be interested in applicants located in Spain, Sweden, UK, Ireland or Germany. Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, Tempo The Opportunity 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). Over the next year, you will help us: • Make Grafana Cloud Traces “just work” for customers by eliminating rough edges, confusing limits, and hidden failure modes. • Achieve operational excellence at scale as we grow from close to 50 cells today into triple digits this year, with autoscaling, parameterized rollouts, and aggressive toil reduction. • Evolve Tempo into a platform enabler: higher-density APIs, trace aggregation, TraceQL metrics math, and machine/LLM-friendly interfaces that downstream products and agents can build on. • Push performance further: faster query latency at hundreds of MB/s ingestion and performant 30-day query ranges to match competitors. • Prepare Tempo for an agent-driven world: larger, burstier, higher-cardinality workloads, and new categories of AI-powered workflows, such as assistant-driven triage and “why is this slow?”- style investigations. What You'll Be Doing: As a Staff Engineer on Tempo, you will set technical direction on the hardest problems in our roadmap and raise the bar across the team. • Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, e.g., trace aggregation APIs, Limitless Tempo, autoscaling cells and customer limits, or query engine improvements. • Own the architecture of core Tempo c

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