Senior Software Engineer- OpenTelemetry| US| Remote

Details

• Contribute to OpenTelemetry components and related open source projects across the ecosystem.
• Help define and execute Grafana Labs’ technical strategy for OpenTelemetry.
• Collaborate with upstream maintainers, contributors, and users in open source communities.
• Serve as an OpenTelemetry expert within Grafana Labs and externally, promoting best practices around instrumentation, semantic conventions, and telemetry collection.
• Build clean, robust, performant software that can be maintained and extended by others.
• Partner with Product, Support, GTM, and other engineering teams to connect customer needs with technical direction.
• Mentor engineers across levels through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and open collaboration.
• Write documentation, examples, blog posts, or other technical materials that help users and internal teams understand OpenTelemetry.
• You have strong experience with at least one systems or backend programming language.
• Experience with Golang, Rust or Java is strongly preferred.
• Experience with C, C++, or similar languages can also translate well.
• You have experience with, or a strong desire to contribute to, open source communities.
• You have experience working with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies from a developer’s perspective.
• You write software that is reliable, maintainable, and understandable to other engineers.
• You are comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and driving them from discovery through delivery.
• You have experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering.
• You communicate clearly in writing and in conversation, especially in remote and async environments.
• 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.
• 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
• Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.