OpenTelemetry Python Instrumentation Engineer – Remote AI

Grafana

United States

Remote

USD 135,000 - 169,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries, with a focus on generative AI. You will guide design, contribute to upstream projects, and mentor others while delivering robust, scalable observability tooling.

This remote, international role emphasizes collaboration across OpenTelemetry communities, performance tuning, and building AI agent workflows, while aligning with Grafana Labs' open-source heritage and product

Qualifications

8+ years of software development experience with strong Python skills.
Experience debugging production software, language internals, libraries, and asynchronous code.
Experience contributing to Open Source/OpenTelemetry communities.
Interest in AI applications and agent systems, with instrumentation expertise.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries.
Implement instrumentation for AI agents and generative AI scenarios.
Collaborate with upstream communities to evolve OpenTelemetry conventions for AI.
Improve Python SDK performance with profiling and benchmarks.