Staff Software Engineer, OpenTelemetry Python Instrumentation

Grafana; Dublin; Remote; EUR 121,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote-first culture

30 days annual leave

Job summary

Grafana Labs, a remote-first observability company, seeks a Staff Engineer to advance the Python OpenTelemetry SDK for Generative AI. You will contribute to upstream projects, develop instrumentation for AI agents, and help shape Grafana’s OpenTelemetry strategy.

You will collaborate with OpenTelemetry communities, accelerate upstream work, and extend Grafana products with AI-enabled observability capabilities. Remote, global team, RSUs and strong growth are offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development with strong Python proficiency.
• Experience debugging production software, language internals, libraries, and asynchronous code.
• Interest in AI applications and agent systems; prior AI systems experience helpful.
• Familiarity with observability tooling and cloud-based software is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop improvements to the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries.
• Build Python instrumentation for AI agents, including across asynchronous code.
• Improve Python SDK performance using profiling and benchmarks.
• Teach best practices for OpenTelemetry and contribute to the upstream community.
• Support OpenTelemetry strategy, design, implementation, and releases.
• Collaborate with GTM, Product, and Support teams and engage with customers.

Skills

Python

OpenTelemetry

Async code

AI applications

Tools

OpenTelemetry SDK

Instrumentation libraries

Job description

Grafana Labs, a remote-first observability company, seeks a Staff Engineer to advance the Python OpenTelemetry SDK for Generative AI. You will contribute to upstream projects, develop instrumentation for AI agents, and help shape Grafana’s OpenTelemetry strategy.

You will collaborate with OpenTelemetry communities, accelerate upstream work, and extend Grafana products with AI-enabled observability capabilities. Remote, global team, RSUs and strong growth are offered.