Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry | US | Remote

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse that helps over 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to strategic OpenTelemetry projects, collaborate with upstream open source communities, and help define Grafana Labs' technical strategy for OpenTelemetry adoption.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• You have strong experience with at least one systems or backend programming language
• 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