Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Ireland | Remote
Grafana Labs · Republic of Ireland (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
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About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer for Tempo at Grafana Labs, you will lead technical initiatives to enhance the Tempo platform, focusing on distributed tracing and operational excellence. Your responsibilities include designing APIs, improving performance, and ensuring the system scales effectively while mentoring other engineers and contributing to open-source efforts. This role requires a strong technical background in distributed systems and a collaborative approach to problem-solving in a fully remote environment.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- 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 on complex, multi-quarter initiatives
- Hands-on experience building and operating distributed data systems
- Strong software craftsmanship with a focus on clean, performant code
- Proficiency in Go or other systems languages like Rust, C, C++
- Operational mindset with experience in production services and SLO management
- Customer-focused approach to problem-solving
Nice to have
- Experience with tracing, OpenTelemetry, or large-scale observability systems
- Experience designing query languages or APIs for programmatic consumption
- Experience 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 117,600 - EUR 141,120
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- 30 days of annual leave
- In-person onboarding
- Global collaborative culture
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Go and distributed systems
- The role involves significant leadership and mentoring responsibilities, which may not suit all candidates
- The compensation range is specific to the Republic of Ireland and may vary for other locations
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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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