Grafana

Grafana is the open observability platform providing analytics, monitoring, and visualization solutions with a focus on user control and cost efficiency.

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Founded 2014

$535M raised

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Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry | Canada | Remote

1 hour, 46 minutes ago

United States, Canada

Full-time

Senior

Software Engineer

Software Development

C C++ Go Grafana Java Microservices OpenTelemetry Prometheus Rust

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Grafana

Grafana is the open observability platform providing analytics, monitoring, and visualization solutions with a focus on user control and cost efficiency.

IT Services

1K-5K

Founded 2014

$535M raised

View All Jobs 157

Description

Contribute to OpenTelemetry components and related open source projects across the ecosystem.
Define and help execute Grafana Labs’ technical strategy for OpenTelemetry.
Collaborate with upstream maintainers, contributors, and users in open source communities.
Act as an OpenTelemetry subject matter expert inside and outside the company, promoting best practices for instrumentation, semantic conventions, and telemetry collection.
Build clean, robust, performant software that is maintainable and extensible by other engineers.
Partner with Product, Support, GTM, and engineering teams to align customer needs with technical direction.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and collaborative problem solving.
Write documentation, examples, blog posts, and other technical materials to support users and internal teams.
Lead technical work in the open and help guide Grafana Labs’ long-term OpenTelemetry strategy.

Requirements

Strong experience with at least one systems or backend programming language.
Golang, Rust, or Java experience is strongly preferred.
Experience with C, C++, or similar languages can also translate well.
Experience with, or a strong desire to contribute to, open source communities.
Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry from a developer’s perspective.
Ability to write reliable, maintainable, and understandable software.
Comfort taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems from discovery through delivery.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in remote and async environments.
Bonus: Existing involvement in the OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or broader observability ecosystem.
Bonus: Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects.
Bonus: Experience setting technical direction for a project or team.
Bonus: Experience with microservices, telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, or production debugging.
Bonus: Experience operating production services, participating in on-call, or improving reliability for customer-facing systems.
Bonus: Experience creating technical content such as documentation, examples, tutorials, or blog posts.

Benefits

Base salary in Canada of CAD 164,000 to CAD 205,000, depending on level, experience, and skillset.
Equity and bonus eligibility, where applicable.
100% remote, global work environment.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
In-person onboarding for new hires.
Transparent communication and company-wide updates.
Career growth pathways and development opportunities.
Approachable leadership and a high-trust, low-ego culture.

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