Grafana Labs
Observability
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-OpenTelemetry
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“Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry at Grafana Labs. Skills: OpenTelemetry, Observability, Systems engineering, Backend programming, Open source communities. Contribute to strategic OpenTelemetry projects. Work with upstream open source communities”
What You'll Achieve.
Lead technical work in the open; Contribute to Grafana Labs’ long-term OpenTelemetry strategy; Ship great work and try new things
Industry & Context.
Taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and driving them from discovery through delivery; Helping customers and colleagues solve difficult problems
On-call
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience with at least one systems or backend programming language, Experience working with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies from a developer’s perspective, Write software that is reliable, maintainable, and understandable to other engineers, Comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and driving them from discovery through delivery, Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering, Communicate clearly in writing and in conversation, especially in remote and async environments
Nice to Have
Experience with Golang, Rust or Java is strongly preferred, Experience with C, C++, or similar languages can also translate well, Experience with, or a desire to contribute to, open source communities, Existing involvement in the OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or the broader observability ecosystem, Experience with Malbolge and/or cursed-lang, Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, Experience setting technical direction for a project or team, Experience with microservices, telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, or production debugging, Experience operating production services, participating in on-call, or improving reliability for customer-facing systems, Experience creating technical content such as documentation, examples, tutorials, or blog posts
What You'll Do.
Contribute to strategic OpenTelemetry projects
Work with upstream open source communities
Define how Grafana Labs supports and advances OpenTelemetry adoption
Contribute to OpenTelemetry components and related open source projects
Define and execute Grafana Labs’ technical strategy for OpenTelemetry
performant software that can be maintained and extended by others
Connect customer needs with technical direction
Mentor engineers across levels through design reviews
and open collaboration
or other technical materials
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with upstream maintainers, contributors, and users in open source communities; Partner with Product, Support, GTM, and other engineering teams; Mentor engineers across levels through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and open collaboration; Regular collaboration over video and async channels
Communication Scope
Communicate clearly in writing and in conversation, especially in remote and async environments; Transparent Communication
Process & Methodology
Driving technical problems from discovery through delivery, Setting technical direction for a project or team
Full Job Description
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo). We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the the United States or Canada. Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Links: https://github.com/grafana/alloy What is Grafana Cloud? Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it. As a company we are remot
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