🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll contribute to strategic OpenTelemetry projects, work with upstream communities, and help define how Grafana Labs supports OpenTelemetry adoption. You'll build production-quality software and serve as an expert on instrumentation and observability best practices.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Contribute to OpenTelemetry components and related open source projects.
• Define and execute Grafana Labs' technical strategy for OpenTelemetry.
• Collaborate with upstream maintainers and users in open source communities.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and guidance.

📋 Requirements

• Strong experience with a systems or backend programming language like Go, Rust, or Java.
• Experience with open source communities or a strong desire to contribute.
• Experience with observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
• Comfortable owning ambiguous technical problems from discovery through delivery.

✨ Nice to Have

• Existing involvement in OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or the broader observability ecosystem.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects.
• Experience with distributed tracing, metrics, or logs.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ Remote-first culture with global flexibility.
• 📚 Opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities.
• 💰 Competitive compensation and equity.
• 🏥 Health insurance coverage.
• ✈️ Home office setup stipend.

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Phone Screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical Phone Interview· 60 min
3. 3Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min
4. 4Team Presentation or Coding Exercise· 90 min
5. 5Offer