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

Grafana Labs • Falun, Dalarnas län, Sweden • Posted June 15, 2026

Location Falun, Dalarnas län

Job Type Full-time

Category Computer Occupations

Posted June 15, 2026

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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