Staff Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry for AI (Python)

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is a remote-only company with a global team, focused on OpenTelemetry and AI-enabled observability. The role centers on enhancing the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and creating instrumentation for AI agents, while contributing to upstream projects and maintaining compatibility across environments.

You will work in a highly collaborative, open-source oriented setting, mentoring others and shaping technical direction within the team and the broader OpenTelemetry community.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in Python and debugging production software.
• Experience participating in open-source communities.
• Familiarity with observability tooling Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
• Interest in AI applications and agent systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop improvements to the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries.
• Build Python instrumentation for AI agents, including across asynchronous code.
• Improve Python SDK performance using profiling and benchmarks.
• Promote best practices around OpenTelemetry within Grafana Labs and the community.
• Own projects from design through release and contribute to OpenTelemetry strategy.

Skills

Python

OpenTelemetry

AI applications

Async code

Instrumentation

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry SDK

Job description

Grafana Labs is a remote-only company with a global team, focused on OpenTelemetry and AI-enabled observability. The role centers on enhancing the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and creating instrumentation for AI agents, while contributing to upstream projects and maintaining compatibility across environments.

You will work in a highly collaborative, open-source oriented setting, mentoring others and shaping technical direction within the team and the broader OpenTelemetry community.