What You'll Be Doing

Develop improvements to the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries, focusing on AI applications and agent workflows.
Collaborate in open-source communities with maintainers and vendors on specifications, APIs, and implementation decisions.
Build Python instrumentation that connects agent runs, model calls, and tool execution, including asynchronous code.
Contribute to evolving OpenTelemetry conventions for generative AI, with attention to sensitive data and metric cardinality.
Improve Python SDK performance using profiling and benchmarks, balancing runtime overhead, compatibility, and maintainability.
Act as an OpenTelemetry expert by teaching others and promoting best practices within Grafana Labs and the wider community.
Support the technical direction and vision of the team; own projects from design to release.
Partner with GTM, Product, and Support teams; engage in customer conversations and convert findings into fixes and guidance.

Requirements

8+ years of software development experience with strong proficiency in Python.
Experience debugging production software, understanding language internals, libraries, and asynchronous code.
Interest in AI applications and agent systems, with curiosity about instrumentation and troubleshooting.
Experience working in open-source communities, eager to collaborate and learn across languages and frameworks.
Familiarity with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
Experience with cloud-based software or systems engineering and understanding of production environments.
High agency and strong communication skills fitting a remote-first engineering organization.

Experience contributing to open source observability projects, especially OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
Expertise in Python instrumentation techniques, profiling, runtime diagnostics, or asynchronous context propagation.
Hands-on technical leadership experience, including setting technical direction and leading project teams.
Experience instrumenting AI frameworks or agent workflows and working with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for generative AI.
Proven contributions to or maintenance of Open Source projects with successful community collaboration.
Rust programming experience related to Python SDK performance improvements.

100% remote work with a global, collaborative culture.
Opportunity to work in a scaling, innovation-driven organization.
Transparent communication with open decision-making and company-wide updates.
Strong emphasis on autonomy, trust, and shipping high-quality work.
Rooted in open source values and community-driven development.
Defined career growth pathways with dedicated individual contributor tracks.
Approachable and visible leadership team.
Passionate and supportive colleagues.
In-person onboarding to help integrate with new team members.
Generous global annual leave policy including 3 dedicated Grafana Shutdown Days.
Competitive compensation including Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for team ownership.