This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo based in United States . Join a remote-first engineering team building and scaling a distributed tracing platform that helps organizations understand application performance and troubleshoot complex systems. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will shape the technical direction of core backend components, from data ingestion and storage to query execution and metrics generation. You will lead significant engineering initiatives focused on reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and performance. Your work will help evolve the platform into a foundation for advanced observability products and AI-powered workflows. Collaborating with product managers and engineers across teams, you will deliver robust APIs and capabilities for both human users and automated agents. This role offers substantial technical ownership, opportunities to mentor other engineers, and the chance to contribute to an open-source project in a globally distributed environment.