113K–141K EUR / year
Staff Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Python Instrumentation
BackendRemote — Germany
Published on 2026-11-06
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About this role
Develop and improve the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries, with a focus on generative AI applications and agent workflows. Work upstream with the OpenTelemetry community while bringing innovations to Grafana Labs products.
About the company
Grafana Labs builds open-source and commercial observability tools for metrics, logs, and traces, centered on Grafana dashboards. It helps teams monitor infrastructure and applications and investigate incidents.
The team
OpenTelemetry SDKs team, within the Observability department.
Stack
PythonOpenTelemetryGrafanaPrometheusRust
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries in collaboration with the open-source community.
- Build instrumentation for AI agents, model calls, and tool execution, including asynchronous workflows.
- Benchmark and improve Python SDK performance while balancing overhead, compatibility, and maintainability.
- Contribute to OpenTelemetry conventions for generative AI, accounting for sensitive data and metric cardinality.
- Set technical direction, own projects through design and release, and mentor others on observability practices.
- Partner with Product, GTM, and Support teams to investigate instrumentation issues and share practical guidance.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of software development experience and strong Python proficiency.
- Experience debugging production software, language internals, libraries, and asynchronous code.
- Interest in AI applications and agent systems.
- Experience with open-source communities and willingness to contribute to OpenTelemetry.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry, and with cloud-based systems.
- Strong ownership, technical communication, and collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with open-source observability projects, especially OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
- Experience with Python instrumentation, profiling, runtime diagnostics, or asynchronous context propagation.
- Technical leadership experience setting direction and leading projects.
- Experience instrumenting AI frameworks or agent workflows, or with OpenTelemetry generative AI conventions.
- Rust experience or successful open-source project contributions.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- 30 days of annual leave, including 3 Grafana shutdown days.
- In-person onboarding.