Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

• 8+ years of experience in software development, with strong proficiency in Java (experience with Python, .NET, Golang, or JavaScript is a plus)
• Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner, including gathering requirements and brainstorming ideas
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
• Some experience with cloud-based software development or systems engineering
• Familiarity with Observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) from a developer's perspective
• Desire to contribute to or experience working in Open Source communities
• 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’re curious and you enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks, setting up examples, and figuring out how things work
• You have a good understanding of typical production environments. Ideally you have been responsible for operating production services and organizing on-call
• You actively mentor other team members, identifying areas for focus and improvement

Desirable

• The OpenTelemetry instrumentation team's mission is to make sure our users succeed in instrumenting their applications with OpenTelemetry
• We are not alone in this
• We work closely with the OpenTelemetry SIGs to make OpenTelemetry SDKs and instrumentation libraries a success
• Members of the OpenTelemetry instrumentation team are experts in at least one programming language and have a broad knowledge of various other programming languages
• As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software
• We are looking for Engineers that are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team!
• Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities
• At Grafana Labs, ICs have a dedicated career path and do not have to become managers to progress in their career
• Staff Software Engineers at Grafana have a large amount of experience across multiple areas
• They are able to estimate, plan, coordinate and deliver large tasks spanning multiple systems
• They actively coach and mentor other team members in their team and are able to identify and resolve issues with technology and product processes
• You will bring your software engineering expertise to develop improvements to the OpenTelemetry Java 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 Java, and with an opportunity to contribute to Python, Go, .NET, 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