10h ago

Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry

Menlo Park, CA

$200k-$287.5k / year

full-timeseniorsoftware

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

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๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll drive Observe by Snowflake's open-source strategy within the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, building next-generation telemetry collection for LLM/AI and Browser RUM. You'll pioneer new instrumentation capabilities and collaborate with the OTel community to shape industry standards.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Pioneer new instrumentation in OTel for LLM/AI and Browser RUM
  • Design and implement OTel Collector components and SDK libraries
  • Contribute code, RFCs, and reviews to the OTel community
  • Architect and own the Observe Agent OTel Collector distribution

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • 5+ years software engineering with OpenTelemetry ecosystem experience
  • Strong Go programming skills and familiarity with an SDK language
  • Deep understanding of OTel architecture (Collector pipeline, SDK, context propagation)
  • Experience contributing to open-source projects with multi-vendor governance

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Approver or maintainer status in an OTel SIG
  • LLM/AI observability instrumentation experience
  • Browser RUM or front-end performance instrumentation

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Competitive salary and equity
  • ๐Ÿฅ Health insurance plans
  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Flexible PTO
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ 401(k) matching

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Callยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Hiring Manager Interviewยท 45 min
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