Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry
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Grafana LabsSoftware Observability
We are looking for candidates in the the United States or Canada.Full-TimeSenior
Salary164,000 - 205,000 CAD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- JavaGoPrometheusRustSoftware EngineeringDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Strong experience with at least one systems or backend programming language (Golang, Rust, Java preferred; C/C++ also accepted).
- Experience with, or strong desire to contribute to, open source communities.
- Experience working with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
- Comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for remote/async environments.
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.
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