Senior Software Engineer - Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector - USA United States (Remote)

Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc; United States; Remote; USD 148,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their remote team focused on observability. This role involves collaborating with the Alloy team to enhance functionality, contributing to design documents, and engaging with the OpenTelemetry community. The ideal candidate will have a passion for observability, excellent communication skills, and relevant open source experience. Join a diverse team dedicated to providing seamless experiences for customers while contributing to open source projects. If you're excited about shaping the future of observability, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Equity

Bonus

Flexible work hours

Remote work opportunities

Qualifications

• Passion for observability and experience in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
• Excellent communication skills and experience in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Delivering new functionality with the Alloy team and supporting observability pipelines.
• Contributing to design documents and engaging with the OpenTelemetry community.

Skills

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Communication Skills

Documentation

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus Ecosystem

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector - USA

United States (Remote)

About the Role

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.

The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their 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 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.
• Being familiar with the Prometheus ecosystem and ensuring Alloy integrates well with Prometheus components.
• Supporting customers and prospects with setting up their observability pipelines.
• Collaborating with other teams within Grafana to ensure Alloy works well with the solutions they are building.
• Participating in on-call rotations for our deployments.

What are we looking for in you?

• A passion for observability and sharing knowledge through documentation and blog posts.
• Excellent communication skills and a love for engaging with customers.
• Relevant open source experience, ideally in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
• A good understanding of production environments, with experience in operating production infrastructure 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 on our careers page.

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. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs 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).

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. We know that our company runs on the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees. 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 anyway.

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