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Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Sweden | Remote

Grafana Labs · Sweden (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 at Grafana Labs, you will lead technical initiatives for Tempo, the open-source distributed tracing backend. Your responsibilities include setting technical direction, owning architecture, designing APIs, driving operational excellence, and mentoring other engineers. You will work on evolving Tempo into a platform that supports Grafana's next generation of observability products while ensuring high performance and reliability for customers.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
4/5
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 leading 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 other systems languages like Rust, C, C++
  • Operational mindset with experience owning production services and reducing toil
  • Customer focus with the ability to break complex problems into manageable parts

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 SEK 878,578 - SEK 1,054,294
  • Equity and bonus opportunities
  • 30 days of annual leave with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
  • In-person onboarding for new employees
  • Remote-first global culture with a focus on collaboration and shared purpose
  • Defined opportunities for career growth and development

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
  • Compensation range is specific to Sweden; applicants from other locations will have different discussions
  • The emphasis on operational excellence may imply a high-pressure environment during scaling phases

Summarised from Grafana Labs's posting. Read the full original.

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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