Staff Developer Advocate

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a remote Developer Advocate based in Sweden! This role focuses on advocating for and nurturing the OpenTelemetry community. As a technologist, you will educate developers and SREs on building with OpenTelemetry, creating technical content, participating in events, and contributing to the community. Prior experience with OpenTelemetry is essential, and experience with other open-source communities is a plus. You will collaborate with a remote team and report to the Director of Developer Advocacy. Success is measured by the success of our users, and you will contribute to improving education and engagement within the community. The role offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Strong, demonstrated experience with OpenTelemetry, either the collector, semantic standards, OTLP, or SDK development
• Substantial technical experience, though this can come from a variety of different disciplines such as testing, software development, system integration, SRE, monitoring, observability, or operations
• Effective communicator with lots of patience. You will be interacting with people from all over the world with varying levels of experience with Grafana and communication styles
• Collaborative mindset that thrives in a culture of learning and sharing what you learn back to the team and community
• A background in a technical field such as a BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Technical writing skills, as shown through any form of past written work
• Presentation skills, for example any form of past speaking experience
• Willingness to travel 30% of the time

Responsibilities

• Help teach developers, SREs, administrators and others how to build with OpenTelemetry
• Participate in events
• Author content
• Write code
• Appear in videos
• Creating technical content to educate and empower developers & SREs; this can include sample applications, presentations, blog posts, and other materials
• Act as an ally and colleague of external practitioners who are getting started
• Build relationships with people across the Grafana & OTel communities, to support & inspire
• Provide feedback on our products; help be a conduit of what the community is saying, to help us improve the feedback loop between what users need and what Grafana delivers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with observability, telemetry, application performance monitoring (APM) or similar
• History of participation in open source developer communities, in any form
• Experience with Cloud e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP is definitely a big plus
• Experience running or organizing communities

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)