Shape Tempo’s hardest distributed systems problems with Go, technical ownership, and a fully remote work model. Lead substantial projects from framing through rollout. As a Senior Engineer, you will guide Tempo’s technical direction and deliver multi-month initiatives across ingestion, storage, querying, and metrics generation. You will write design documents, make performance, cost, and complexity trade-offs, and partner with Staff engineers, technical leads, Product, and sibling teams. The work includes trace aggregation APIs, autoscaling cells, customer limits, and query engine improvements. Key Responsibilities:

Own technical direction for complex Tempo roadmap problems Deliver multi-month projects from problem framing through rollout Build and operate ingestion, storage, query,



and metrics components Define SLOs and improve operational excellence through automation Mentor engineers through reviews, feedback, and pairing Requirements:

Significant production experience with distributed data systems Solid Go experience or a path to it Experience operating production services and participating in on-call Experience with tracing, OpenTelemetry, or observability systems Track record delivering complex multi-month technical projects Bring distributed systems expertise, Go capability, and operational ownership to Tempo’s ingestion, storage, query, and metrics platform.

📌 Senior Go Distributed Systems Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Grafana
📍 Winnipeg