Senior Software Engineer – OpenTelemetry

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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer contributing to OpenTelemetry projects and advancing OpenTelemetry adoption at Grafana Labs. Collaborating with open source communities and defining technical strategies in a remote-first environment.

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

  • 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 working with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies from a developer’s perspective
  • write software that is reliable, maintainable, and understandable to other engineers
  • comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and driving them from discovery through delivery
  • experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering
  • communicate clearly in writing and in conversation, especially in remote and async environments

Benefits

  • equity
  • bonus (if applicable)
  • other benefits listed here

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$164,000 - CA$205,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaJavaOpen SourcePrometheusRustGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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