Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | Spain | Remote

ABOUT THE ROLE Grafana Labs is a fast-growing company that values open-source legacy, global collaborative culture, and meaningful work. As a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, we're looking for talented individuals to help us scale and innovate. Our team thrives in an environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. WHAT YOU'LL DO We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Grafana Databases, Tempo team. Tempo is the open-source distributed tracing backend behind Grafana Cloud Traces and Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET). As a Staff Engineer, you'll set technical direction on the hardest problems in our roadmap and raise the bar across the team. Your responsibilities will include: - Leading multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout - Owning the architecture of core Tempo components: ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation - Designing APIs for humans and agents - Driving operational excellence and owning outcomes against concrete SLOs - Partnering with Product and sibling teams to understand how Tempo gets consumed and to ship what unblocks them - Mentoring engineers and contributing to open source WHAT YOU'LL NEED - Strong technical skills and experience in software engineering - Ability to lead technical initiatives and own architecture - Experience with distributed tracing and observability - Strong communication and collaboration skills - Experience with open-source development and community engagement WHY REMOTE Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries. We're looking for talented individuals who can work effectively in a remote environment and contribute to our global team. BENEFITS - Opportunity to work on a high-impact project with a global team - Flexible work arrangements and remote work environment - Access to modern AI coding assistants and company-funded usage budget - Opportunity to contribute to open-source development and community engagement - Competitive salary and benefits package