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Posted May 14

Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry | US | Remote

at Grafana Labs

United StatesRemote
JavaGoRustgolanggrafanaprometheussalesforce

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with upstream maintainers, contributors, and users in open source communities.
  • Build clean, robust, performant software that can be maintained and extended by others.
  • 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

  • There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps.
  • Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack , both featuring scalable metrics ( Grafana Mimir ), logs ( Grafana Loki ), and traces ( Grafana Tempo ).
  • Partner with Product, Support, GTM, and other engineering teams to connect customer needs with technical direction.
  • 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.
  • experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering.
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects. •
  • Experience with microservices, telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, or production debugging. •
  • Experience creating technical content such as documentation, examples, tutorials, or blog posts.
  • Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings.

Benefits

  • You communicate clearly in writing and in conversation, especially in remote and async environments. Bonus Points For:
  • Compensation & Rewards:
  • In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is USD 154,000 - USD 193 ,000 . Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process.
  • Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here .
  • *Compensation ranges are country-specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range &
  • *Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range &
  • Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique.

Contact

  • Links: https://github.com/grafana/alloy

Additional details

  • Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse.
  • The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France.
  • 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.
  • Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana.
  • 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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