# Staff Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation | Ireland | Remote

**Company**: Grafana Labs
**Location**: Republic of Ireland (Remote)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: EUR 121,000 - EUR 151,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to focus on OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation, particularly for Generative AI. The successful candidate will work on developing improvements to the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate in open-source communities to develop and maintain the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries

- Build Python instrumentation for AI agents, focusing on connecting agent runs, model calls, and tool execution

- Improve Python SDK performance, evaluating implementation approaches and making sound tradeoffs around runtime overhead, compatibility, and maintainability

- Promote best practices around OpenTelemetry and teach others about OpenTelemetry and related technologies

- Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to business conversations on the OpenTelemetry strategy at Grafana Labs

Requirements:

- 8+ years of experience in software development, with strong proficiency in Python and experience debugging production software

- Interest in AI applications and agent systems, with curiosity about how to instrument and troubleshoot them

- Experience working in open-source communities and familiarity with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry

Nice to Have:

- Experience working on open source observability projects, ideally in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus

- Experience in Python instrumentation techniques, profiling, runtime diagnostics, or asynchronous context propagation

- Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams

Compensation & Rewards:

- EUR 121,000 - EUR 151,000 per year

- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- OpenTelemetry
- observability
- software development
- AI applications

### Nice to have
- open source observability projects
- Python instrumentation techniques
- profiling
- runtime diagnostics
- asynchronous context propagation
- technical leadership

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