Staff OTel Python Engineer - AI Instrumentation (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; 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 OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation, with a focus on Generative AI and agent workflows. You’ll work upstream-first, collaborating in open-source communities and driving instrumentation across asynchronous code.

You will contribute to the OpenTelemetry Python SDKs and tooling, improve performance, and share expertise across Grafana Labs and the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. This is a remote, international role with high autonomy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with a focus on Python.
• Strong debugging of production software and asynchronous code.
• Experience with open-source communities and contributing to OSS.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain OpenTelemetry Python SDKs and instrumentation libraries.
• Collaborate with open-source communities and coordinate with maintainers and vendors.
• Improve performance of Python SDKs using profiling and benchmarks.
• Educate teams and users on OpenTelemetry best practices and semantic conventions.

Skills

Python

Asynchronous coding

Open-source participation

Production debugging

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry SDK

Rust (bonus)

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation, with a focus on Generative AI and agent workflows. You’ll work upstream-first, collaborating in open-source communities and driving instrumentation across asynchronous code.

You will contribute to the OpenTelemetry Python SDKs and tooling, improve performance, and share expertise across Grafana Labs and the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. This is a remote, international role with high autonomy.