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 observability platform company is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work remotely. This role involves supporting customers, contributing to features in OpenTelemetry, and engaging with the community. Ideal candidates have experience in production environments and a passion for observability. The salary range is $148,505 - $178,206, with additional benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience with operating production infrastructure and services.
• Open source contributions, ideally in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
• Strong writing skills for documentation and blog posts.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Alloy team to deliver new functionality.
• Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming features.
• Participate in on-call rotations for deployments.

Skills

Passion for observability

Excellent communication skills

Customer engagement

Open source experience

Understanding of production environments

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector

Links: https://github.com/grafana/alloy

What is Grafana Cloud?

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

What is Grafana Alloy?

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 we include in our distribution. We also cover use cases that are out-of-scope for OpenTelemetry, like integration of Prometheus exporters.

As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software. We are looking for Engineers that are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team! Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities.

What will you 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 a lot of components with the OpenTelemetry collector project.
• Being familiar with the Prometheus ecosystem and making sure that Alloy integrates well with Prometheus components.
• Supporting customers and prospects with setting up their observability pipelines.
• Working with other teams within Grafana to make sure Alloy works well with the solutions they are building.
• Participating in on-call rotations for our deployments.

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

What are we looking for in you?

• You have a passion for observability and like to share your knowledge by writing documentation and blog posts.
• You love to engage with customers and help them out.
• 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.
• You have a good understanding of production environments. Ideally you have been responsible for operating production infrastructure and services, and organizing on-call.

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 in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

About Grafana Labs

There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

Benefits

For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.

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