Staff Software Engineer (OpenTelemetry Python)

Location: Remote from Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden or the UK

Compensation in Germany: EUR 113,000–141,000 per year, plus RSUs. Country-specific compensation applies.

Company

hirify.global develops Grafana Cloud, a managed observability platform built on open-source software and open standards for metrics, logs, traces and AI-enabled observability.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries with upstream maintainers and other vendors.
• Build Python instrumentation connecting AI agent runs, model calls and tool execution across asynchronous code.
• Contribute to OpenTelemetry generative AI conventions while addressing sensitive data and metric cardinality.
• Profile and benchmark SDK implementations to improve performance, compatibility and maintainability.
• Own projects from ambiguous problem definition through design, implementation, testing, documentation and release.
• Teach OpenTelemetry practices, support technical direction, collaborate with GTM, Product and Support teams, and investigate customer instrumentation issues.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience, including strong Python proficiency.
• Experience debugging production software, language internals, libraries and asynchronous code.
• Interest in AI applications and agent systems, with curiosity about instrumenting and troubleshooting them; prior AI systems experience is helpful but not required.
• Experience working in open-source communities and willingness to become active in the OpenTelemetry community.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with cloud-based software or systems engineering, production environments and operational risk assessment.
• High agency and strong communication skills for remote collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with open-source observability projects, especially OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
• Experience with Python instrumentation, profiling, runtime diagnostics or asynchronous context propagation.
• Hands-on technical leadership, technical direction and project team leadership.
• Experience instrumenting AI frameworks or agent workflows, or working with OpenTelemetry generative AI semantic conventions.
• Successful open-source contributions, pull requests and community collaboration.
• Rust experience for potential Rust-backed Python SDK performance improvements.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote company with a global, collaborative and open-source-oriented culture.
• Autonomy, transparent communication, high trust and empowered teams.
• Dedicated individual-contributor career path with opportunities for coaching, mentoring and career growth.
• In-person onboarding is expected.
• 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
• RSUs are included in all roles.