OpenTelemetry Python Engineer for Generative AI - Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote-friendly culture

Global team collaboration

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on OpenTelemetry in Python, with an emphasis on AI instrumentation. You will contribute to the upstream OpenTelemetry project and accelerate integration with Grafana Cloud offerings.

This remote-first role welcomes applicants globally, offering opportunities to collaborate across languages and open-source communities while shaping observability tooling for scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Strong Python proficiency and debugging production software.
• Experience in open-source communities.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in open-source communities. Develop and maintain the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries, working with maintainers and other vendors on specifications, APIs, and implementation decisions.
• Build Python instrumentation for AI agents, connecting agent runs, model calls, and tool execution across async code.
• Improve Python SDK performance using profiling and benchmarks, balancing runtime overhead and maintainability.
• Be visible as an OpenTelemetry expert, teaching best practices and contributing to the community.
• Support the technical direction and vision of the team, owning projects from design to release.
• Engage with GTM, Product and Support teams; participate in customer conversations and translate learnings into fixes.

Skills

Python

OpenTelemetry

Asynchronous code

Open source

Tools

OpenTelemetry SDKs

Instrumentation libraries

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on OpenTelemetry in Python, with an emphasis on AI instrumentation. You will contribute to the upstream OpenTelemetry project and accelerate integration with Grafana Cloud offerings.

This remote-first role welcomes applicants globally, offering opportunities to collaborate across languages and open-source communities while shaping observability tooling for scale.