Staff OpenTelemetry Python Engineer - Remote AI Instrumentation

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Grafana Labs, a remote-first observability company, is hiring for an OpenTelemetry-focused role specializing in Python. You will develop and maintain the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrument libraries, collaborating with upstream communities and vendors to advance generative AI instrumentation.

You will work on AI agent instrumentation, performance improvements, and contribute to OpenTelemetry conventions, while mentoring others and guiding technical direction within Grafana Labs and the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience, with strong Python skills and debugging production software.
• Interest in AI applications and agent systems; prior AI experience helpful but not required.
• Experience working in open-source communities and openness to collaboration.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and cloud-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries with upstream community.
• Build Python instrumentation for AI agents, connecting runs, model calls, and tool execution.
• Improve Python SDK performance using profiling and benchmarks; balance runtime overhead and compatibility.
• Promote OpenTelemetry best practices and contribute knowledge within Grafana Labs and the wider community.
• Support team direction and contribute to OpenTelemetry strategy from design to release.
• Collaborate with GTM, Product, and Support teams; participate in customer conversations to turn insights into fixes.

Skills

Python

OpenTelemetry

AI interest

Open source

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Grafana Labs, a remote-first observability company, is hiring for an OpenTelemetry-focused role specializing in Python. You will develop and maintain the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrument libraries, collaborating with upstream communities and vendors to advance generative AI instrumentation.

You will work on AI agent instrumentation, performance improvements, and contribute to OpenTelemetry conventions, while mentoring others and guiding technical direction within Grafana Labs and the