Grafana Labs
Observability
SeniorSoftwareEngineerOpenTelemetry
“Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry at Grafana Labs. Skills: OpenTelemetry, Systems or backend programming languages, Observability tools, Cloud infrastructure, Distributed systems. Contribute to strategic OpenTelemetry projects. Work with upstream open source communities”
What You'll Achieve.
Help others adopt best practices around instrumentation, telemetry pipelines, semantic conventions, and observability architecture; Promote best practices around instrumentation, semantic conventions, and telemetry collection; Contribute to Grafana Labs’ long-term OpenTelemetry strategy
Industry & Context.
Taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems; 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 with, or a desire to contribute to, open source communities, Experience working with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies from a developer’s perspective, Writes 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, Communicates 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, 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
Connect customer needs with technical direction
or other technical materials
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work across organizational boundaries; 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; Written communication
Process & Methodology
Driving technical problems from discovery through delivery, Setting technical direction for a project or team
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