Staff Software Engineer, Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector

Summary

Join our growing team as a Staff Software Engineer - Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector! As a remote role for US Eastern timezones, you'll work with the Alloy team to deliver new functionality, contribute to design documents, and participate in on-call rotations. We're looking for engineers passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers.

Requirements

• You have a passion for observability and like to share your knowledge by writing documentation and blog posts
• You love to engage with customers and help them out
• You have excellent communication skills
• You have relevant open source experience, ideally in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus
• You are willing to become an active member of the OpenTelemetry community
• You have a good understanding of production environments. Ideally you have been responsible for operating production infrastructure and services, and organizing on-call

Responsibilities

• Working with the Alloy team to deliver new functionality
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features
• Being an active member of the OpenTelemetry collector community. Alloy shares a lot of components with the OpenTelemetry collector project
• Being familiar with the Prometheus ecosystem and making sure that Alloy integrates well with Prometheus components
• Supporting customers and prospects with setting up their observability pipelines
• Working with other teams within Grafana to make sure Alloy works well with the solutions they are building
• Participating in on-call rotations for our deployments