Senior Software Engineer – OpenTelemetry

📋 Description

• Contribute to OpenTelemetry components and associated open source projects within the ecosystem.

• Assist in defining and implementing Grafana Labs’ technical strategy for OpenTelemetry.

• Collaborate with upstream maintainers, contributors, and users in open source communities.

• Act as an OpenTelemetry expert both within Grafana Labs and externally, advocating for best practices in instrumentation, semantic conventions, and telemetry collection.

• Develop clean, robust, and high-performance software that can be easily maintained and extended by others.

• Partner with Product, Support, GTM, and various engineering teams to align customer needs with technical direction.

• Mentor engineers at all levels through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and collaborative efforts.

• Produce documentation, examples, blog posts, or other technical materials to help users and internal teams comprehend OpenTelemetry.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong experience with at least one systems or backend programming language.

• Proficiency in Golang, Rust, or Java is highly preferred.

• Experience with C, C++, or similar languages is also relevant.

• Familiarity with, or a strong desire to engage with, open source communities.

• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or analogous technologies from a developer’s viewpoint.

• Ability to write software that is reliable, maintainable, and comprehensible to other engineers.

• Comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous technical challenges and guiding them from initial discovery to final delivery.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering.

• Communicate effectively in both written and spoken forms, particularly in remote and asynchronous environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Bonus (if applicable)

• Other benefits listed here