Senior Software Engineer - Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector | USA | Remote

Grafana Labs; United States; Remote; USD 148,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading remote-first open-source company is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join its Alloy team, working on innovative observability tools. This role involves enhancing functionalities, engaging with customers, and contributing to the OpenTelemetry community. Ideal candidates will have a strong passion for observability, excellent communication skills, and relevant open-source experience. The position is fully remote with an annual compensation range of $148,505 - $178,206.

Benefits

100% Remote work

Transparent communication

Career growth pathways

30 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Passion for observability and knowledge sharing.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Relevant open-source experience, ideally in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver new functionality with the Alloy team.
• Participate in OpenTelemetry community activities.
• Support customers with their observability pipelines.

Skills

Observability

Communication

Open-source experience

Customer engagement

Job description

Overview

Senior Software Engineer - Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector | USA | Remote

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with a global reach and a strong open-source legacy. We serve millions of users and thousands of companies with Grafana Cloud and the Grafana Enterprise Stack, offering scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

We are scaling rapidly and value transparency, autonomy, and collaboration. We welcome candidates who are excited by meaningful work and are open to roles that may evolve with the company.

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

Senior Software Engineer - Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It enables customers to use the best open-source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without installing, maintaining, or scaling their own observability stack.

The Observability department focuses on helping developers understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud, and visualize and explore it.

Grafana Alloy is an open-source OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. The Alloy team collaborates with the upstream OpenTelemetry collector community on components in our distribution and covers use cases beyond OpenTelemetry, such as integration of Prometheus exporters.

As a remote-first, global company, we embrace diverse experiences and backgrounds and seek engineers who communicate well with data and deliver seamless experiences for customers. Engineers at Grafana also have opportunities to contribute to Open Source communities.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Working with the Alloy team to deliver new functionality.
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features.
• Being an active member of the OpenTelemetry collector community. Alloy shares many components with the OpenTelemetry collector project.
• Ensuring Alloy integrates well with Prometheus components and the Prometheus ecosystem.
• Supporting customers and prospects with setting up their observability pipelines.
• Collaborating with other Grafana teams to ensure Alloy works well with their solutions.
• Participating in on-call rotations for deployments.

As we are remote-first, we provide guidance and regular video-based communication, so independent attitude and good communication skills are essential.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• You have a passion for observability and enjoy sharing knowledge via documentation and blog posts.
• You enjoy engaging with customers and helping them succeed.
• You have excellent communication skills.
• You have relevant open-source experience, ideally in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
• You are willing to become an active member of the OpenTelemetry community.

Bonus Points For:

• You have a solid understanding of production environments and experience operating production infrastructure and on-call responsibilities.

In the US the base compensation range for this role is $148,505 - $178,206. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed during the interview process. All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to align incentives with Grafana Labs’ success.

Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying from a location different from the listed location, your recruiter will discuss the market pay range and benefits at the start of the process.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture - We are a remote-first company, drawing talent from around the world with a culture of collaboration and purpose.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth environment.
• Transparent Communication – Open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Community-driven values shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture focused on outcomes.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent executives who are present and engaged.
• Passionate People – A team of smart, supportive individuals who care about their work.
• In-Person onboarding – We aim for day-one engagement with fellow Grafanistas to accelerate learning.
• Balance is Key – Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days; local legislation applies where relevant.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and other characteristics. We believe equality and diversity strengthen Grafana Labs as we grow.

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