121K–151K EUR / year
Staff Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Python Instrumentation
BackendRemote — Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain
Published on 2026-11-06
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About this role
Develop and improve OpenTelemetry’s Python SDK and instrumentation libraries, with a focus on generative AI applications and agent workflows. Work upstream with the OpenTelemetry community while bringing relevant 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 the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries in collaboration with upstream contributors.
- 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.
- Help shape OpenTelemetry conventions for generative AI, accounting for sensitive data and metric cardinality.
- Set technical direction, own projects end to end, and mentor others.
- Support customers and internal teams by investigating instrumentation issues and sharing guidance.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of software development experience and strong Python proficiency.
- Experience debugging production software, libraries, language internals, 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.
- Experience with cloud-based software or systems engineering and production environments.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work autonomously in a remote team.
Nice to have
- 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 working with OpenTelemetry generative AI conventions.
- Open-source observability contributions, especially to OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
- Rust experience, particularly for Python SDK performance improvements.
Benefits
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including three Grafana shutdown days.
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- In-person onboarding.