Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Germany | Remote
Grafana Labs · Germany (Remote)
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 82 days Grafana Labs's roles stay open a median of 82 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 24% of Grafana Labs's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Grafana Labs
- high 131 stale, 2 reposted of 131 open
- Hiring momentum
- 206 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Grafana Labs's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Grafana Labs.
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Tempo at Grafana Labs, you'll lead technical initiatives to enhance the open-source distributed tracing backend. Your responsibilities will include setting technical direction, owning architecture, designing APIs, and driving operational excellence while collaborating with product teams and mentoring engineers. This role emphasizes innovation and aims to evolve Tempo into a robust platform for Grafana's observability products.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Grafana Labs as an employer.
What you need
- Technical leadership experience in complex, multi-quarter initiatives
- Deep systems experience with distributed data systems in production
- Strong software craftsmanship with clean, robust, performant code
- Proficiency in Go or experience in similar systems languages (Rust, C, C+)
- Operational mindset with experience owning production services
- Customer focus and ability to break down complex problems into MVPs
Nice to have
- Experience with tracing, OpenTelemetry, or large-scale observability systems
- Experience designing query languages or APIs for programmatic consumption
- Familiarity with columnar storage formats or analytical workloads
- Experience operating multi-tenant, multi-cell SaaS infrastructure on Kubernetes
- Experience building for AI/LLM consumers
What you get
- Base compensation range of EUR 109,709 - EUR 131,651
- Equity and bonus opportunities
- 30 days of annual leave, including Grafana Shutdown Days
- In-person onboarding for new employees
- Remote-first global culture
- Defined opportunities for career growth
Worth weighing
- Base compensation range is specified for Germany only; other locations may vary
- Role involves significant technical leadership and operational responsibility
- Focus on evolving Tempo suggests a fast-paced, innovative environment
- Expectations for on-call participation and incident response
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Listed by Grafana Labs on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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