Senior Backend Engineer - Databases, Tempo (Remote, Sweden)

Grafana Labs
📍 Falun, Dalarnas län, Sweden 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 26, 2026

Job Description

This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in Sweden or Spain.

What we do

We are the developers of , an open source distributed tracing backend that is user-friendly, scalable, and a key component of Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET). Tempo allows users to easily search for traces, create metrics from spans, and connect tracing data with logs and metrics. Our team, focused on back-end development, collaborates closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to provide Tempo for on-premises use and at scale in the cloud.

In our expansive domain, some of the projects we have undertaken include:

  • Creating and operating distributed systems to efficiently handle tracing ingestion and queries
  • Developing, a query language specifically designed for selecting traces in Tempo, inspired by PromQL and LogQL
  • Building and improving the , a Tempo component that generates metrics from ingested traces
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    Job Details

    • Location Falun, Dalarnas län
    • Job Type Full-time
    • Category Computer Occupations
    • Posted Date June 26, 2026
    • Application Deadline August 05, 2026