OpenTelemetry Python Engineer AI Instrumentation (Remote)

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

Grafana Labs is recruiting for a Staff Software Engineer focused on Python OpenTelemetry for Generative AI. You will work in an upstream-first approach, contributing to OpenTelemetry SDKs and instrumentation libraries, while accelerating Grafana Labs product innovations.

You will collaborate with OpenTelemetry communities, build AI agent instrumentation, and optimize SDK performance, shaping conventions for generative AI and ensuring data handling safety.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with Python.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with cloud-based software or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain 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.
• Promote best practices around OpenTelemetry and generative AI in the community.

Skills

Python programming

OpenTelemetry

Open source

AI instrumentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/engineering

Tools

OpenTelemetry SDKs

Instrumentation libraries

Job description

Grafana Labs is recruiting for a Staff Software Engineer focused on Python OpenTelemetry for Generative AI. You will work in an upstream-first approach, contributing to OpenTelemetry SDKs and instrumentation libraries, while accelerating Grafana Labs product innovations.

You will collaborate with OpenTelemetry communities, build AI agent instrumentation, and optimize SDK performance, shaping conventions for generative AI and ensuring data handling safety.