Senior Software Engineer- OpenTelemetry| US| Remote

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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.