[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry @Grafana Labs

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help shape Grafana Labs’ work in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. In this role, you will:

• Contribute to strategic OpenTelemetry projects.
• Work with upstream open source communities.
• Help define how Grafana Labs supports and advances OpenTelemetry adoption.
• Combine strong software engineering skills with technical leadership, community collaboration, and a customer-focused approach to observability.
• Enjoy building production-quality software, working across organizational boundaries, and helping others adopt best practices around instrumentation, telemetry pipelines, semantic conventions, and observability architecture.

Specific responsibilities include:

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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 observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies from a developer’s perspective.
• Ability to write reliable, maintainable, and understandable software.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in remote and async environments.

Requirements

• Experience with or a strong desire to contribute to open source communities.
• Comfort in taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and driving them from discovery through delivery.

Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• In-Person onboarding – Thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’.
• Balance is Key – Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.