Remote Principal Software Engineer, OpenTelemetry Instrumentation

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' growing team as a Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry .NET Instrumentation and contribute to the development of improvements to the .NET SDK and other strategic projects in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.

Requirements

• Desire to contribute or experience working in Open Source communities
• Candidates typically have 8+ years of experience in software development with at least one programming language
• Experience with the .NET (.NET Framework or .NET v8+) is strongly preferred for this role
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• Experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
• Familiarity with Observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus or OpenTelemetry from a developer’s perspective

Responsibilities

• You will bring your software engineering expertise to develop improvements to the .NET SDK and other strategic projects in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem
• Collaborate in open-source communities. You will contribute to the OpenTelemetry specification, and to OpenTelemetry components across a wide range of programming languages; Primarily .NET, and with an opportunities to contribute to Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, C++, Rust, and more
• Be visible as an OpenTelemetry expert . Teach others, promote best practices around OpenTelemetry, semantic conventions, and various technologies and frameworks. Both within Grafana Labs and in the broader OpenTelemetry community
• Support the technical direction and vision of the team , and contribute to business conversations on the OpenTelemetry strategy at Grafana Labs
• Mentors junior team members in an open and respectful way. Lend your own knowledge and skills to other departments within Grafana, such as our GTM, Product and Support teams

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)