Senior Software Engineer - Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector - Canada

Job Description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector team. This role is focused on developing new functionality, contributing to design documents, and actively participating in the OpenTelemetry collector community. The engineer will work on integrating Alloy with Prometheus components and supporting customers with their observability pipelines. The role also involves collaborating with other teams within Grafana and participating in on-call rotations.

What will this role involve:

• 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.
• Being familiar with the Prometheus ecosystem and ensuring 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.

Requirements:

• A passion for observability and willingness to share knowledge through documentation and blog posts.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Relevant open source experience, ideally in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
• Willingness to become an active member of the OpenTelemetry community.
• A good understanding of production environments.
• Experience operating production infrastructure and services, and organizing on-call (ideally).

What role offers:

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)