Senior Software Engineer – OpenTelemetry

Grafana Labs

Senior Software Engineer shaping Grafana Labs’ work in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. Contribute to strategic projects and collaborate with open source communities.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $154,000 - $193,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoGrafanaJavaOpen SourcePrometheusRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
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

What you’ll need

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
experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering
communicate clearly in writing and in conversation, especially in remote and async environments

Benefits

Comp & perks

equity
bonus (if applicable)
100% Remote, Global Culture
Flexible working hours
30 days annual leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangRustJavaCC++observability toolsdistributed systemssystems engineeringsoftware reliabilitysoftware maintainability

Soft Skills

communicationmentorshipcollaborationtechnical guidanceownershipproblem-solvingwritingdesign reviewscode reviewstechnical strategy