Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry | Canada | Remote
About the role
Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry
What is Grafana Cloud?
Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.
The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it.
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.
What You’ll Be Doing:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help shape Grafana Labs’ work in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
In this role, you will contribute to strategic OpenTelemetry projects, work with upstream open source communities, and help define how Grafana Labs supports and advances OpenTelemetry adoption. You will combine strong software engineering skills with technical leadership, community collaboration, and a customer-focused approach to observability.
This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys building production-quality software, working across organizational boundaries, and helping others adopt best practices around instrumentation, telemetry pipelines, semantic conventions, and observability architecture.
- Contribute to OpenTelemetry components and related open source projects across the ecosystem.
- Help define and execute Grafana Labs’ technical strategy for OpenTelemetry.
- Collaborate with upstream maintainers, contributors, and the broader OpenTelemetry community.