Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry - US - Remote

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help shape Grafana Labs' work in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
• This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys building production-quality software, working across organizational boundaries, and helping others adopt best practices around instrumentation, telemetry pipelines, semantic conventions, and observability architecture.
• 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.
• What Makes You a Great Fit:
• You have 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.
• 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 d

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Additional Information

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers - including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce - trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we're backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X . We're scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that's okay. If this role excites you, we'd love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the the United States or Canada. Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Links: https://github.com/grafana/alloy What is Grafana Cloud? Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software - including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo - without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it. As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software. We are looking for Engineers that are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team! Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities.

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