Staff OpenTelemetry Python Engineer - AI Instrumentation

Software; Ireland; Remote; EUR 121,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Remote-first culture

Global team collaboration

Job summary

Grafana Labs is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to advance the OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation with a focus on generative AI. This remote-first, globally distributed team values open source and collaboration across languages and platforms.

You will contribute to the OpenTelemetry SDKs, build AI agent instrumentation, and drive performance improvements while mentoring others and shaping upstream projects.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with Python.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote/global team.

Responsibilities

• Develop improvements to the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries.
• Collaborate with open-source communities and other vendors on specs and APIs.
• Build Python instrumentation for AI agents and generative AI use cases.
• Improve SDK performance and evaluate trade-offs for runtime overhead.
• Promote best practices and act as an OpenTelemetry expert within Grafana Labs.

Skills

Python

OpenTelemetry

AI applications

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

OpenTelemetry SDK

Job description

Grafana Labs is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to advance the OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation with a focus on generative AI. This remote-first, globally distributed team values open source and collaboration across languages and platforms.

You will contribute to the OpenTelemetry SDKs, build AI agent instrumentation, and drive performance improvements while mentoring others and shaping upstream projects.