Shape Tempo’s hardest distributed systems problems with Go, technical ownership, and a fully work from home 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
- Strong 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.

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📌 Senior Go Distributed Systems Engineer (Ottawa)
🏢 Grafana Labs
📍 Ottawa