Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry | US | Remote

1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Grafana

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

Description

  • 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 internally 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 align customer needs with technical direction.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and open collaboration.
  • Write documentation, examples, blog posts, and other technical materials that help users and internal teams understand OpenTelemetry.
  • Lead technical work across organizational boundaries and contribute to long-term OpenTelemetry strategy.
  • Help customers and colleagues solve difficult production and observability problems.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ability to take ownership of ambiguous technical problems and drive them 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 compensation range in the United States of USD 154,000 to USD 193,000.
  • Equity is included as part of the rewards package.
  • Bonus opportunity, if applicable.
  • 100% remote work with a global team.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.
  • 3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding to help new hires get started.
  • Career growth pathways and development opportunities.

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