Staff OpenTelemetry Engineer (Python) Remote

Software; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 107,000 - 134,000; Full time

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Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation, with a strong emphasis on AI applications and agent workflows. The role is remote-first, collaborating with the upstream OpenTelemetry community and Grafana product teams.

You will work on performance improvements, benchmarking, and providing guidance to teams and customers. Prior open source collaboration and solid Python expertise are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in Python and debugging production software.
• Interest in AI applications and agent systems.
• Open-source community involvement and collaboration.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.

Responsibilities

• Develop improvements to the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries with a focus on AI applications.
• Collaborate with open-source communities and maintainers on specifications, APIs, and implementations.
• Build instrumentation for AI agents and cross‑async code, aligning with generative AI conventions.
• Improve Python SDK performance using profiling and benchmarking with upstream contributors.
• Share knowledge by teaching best practices around OpenTelemetry and related technologies.

Skills

Python

OpenTelemetry

Async code

Debugging

Tools

Rust

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation, with a strong emphasis on AI applications and agent workflows. The role is remote-first, collaborating with the upstream OpenTelemetry community and Grafana product teams.

You will work on performance improvements, benchmarking, and providing guidance to teams and customers. Prior open source collaboration and solid Python expertise are essential for success.