Staff Software Engineer, OpenTelemetry Python Instrumentation
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Grafana LabsObservability software
This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applications from Germany, UK, Ireland and Spain.Full-TimeStaff
SalaryIn Germany, the compensation range for this role is EUR 113,000 - EUR 141,000.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of experience in software development
- Required Skills
- PythonGrafanaPrometheusRust
Requirements
- Bring 8+ years of software development experience.
- Have strong proficiency in Python.
- Have experience debugging production software, language internals, libraries, and asynchronous code.
- Be interested in AI applications and agent systems, and curious about instrumenting and troubleshooting them.
- Have experience working in open-source communities and be willing to participate in the OpenTelemetry community.
- Be familiar with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
- Have experience with cloud-based software or systems engineering and understand production environments and operational risks.
- Communicate effectively and work with high agency in a remote engineering organization.
- Python instrumentation, profiling, runtime diagnostics, asynchronous context propagation, technical leadership, AI framework instrumentation, or Rust experience are listed as helpful or bonus qualifications.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries with maintainers and other vendors.
- Build instrumentation connecting AI agent runs, model calls, and tool execution, including across asynchronous code.
- Contribute to OpenTelemetry conventions for generative AI while considering sensitive data and metric cardinality.
- Evaluate Python SDK performance using profiling and benchmarks, balancing runtime overhead, compatibility, and maintainability.
- Teach and promote best practices for OpenTelemetry, semantic conventions, and related technologies and frameworks.
- Support the team's technical direction and contribute to OpenTelemetry strategy discussions.
- Own projects from problem definition through design, implementation, testing, documentation, and release.
- Partner with GTM, Product, and Support teams, join customer conversations, investigate instrumentation issues, and develop fixes and practical guidance.
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