Staff Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Python Instrumentation

Location: Remote; applications are invited from Spain, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and the UK.

Salary: EUR 97,000–EUR 121,000 per year in Spain, plus RSUs. Compensation varies by location, level, experience, and skillset.

Company

hirify.global develops Grafana Cloud, a managed observability platform built on open source and open standards and used to monitor reliability, incidents, and telemetry at scale.

What you will do

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical Grafana Alerting and SLO systems for on-premises and cloud deployments.
• Build and deliver features from initial ideation through production operations, iterating based on customer results and feedback.
• Develop distributed systems that scale alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation for Grafana- and Prometheus-based alerts.
• Own service reliability, performance, availability, and participation in on-call rotations.
• Contribute to open-source projects, design discussions, roadmap development, and cross-team collaboration.
• Mentor and support engineers while learning the Grafana Cloud product, customers, and large distributed codebase.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language; Go is used, and Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar experience is applicable.
• Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and ideation through shipping to customers in a self-driven manner.
• Experience developing cloud software or working in systems engineering.
• Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software.
• Ability to work independently in a remote-first engineering organization, with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Customer focus, a bias toward action, pragmatism, and the ability to break complex challenges into modular solutions with short feedback loops.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote company with a global culture, transparent communication, high trust, autonomy, and open-source values.
• Career growth pathways, approachable leadership, and an innovation-driven environment.
• 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
• In-person onboarding with fellow new Grafanistas.
• RSUs are included for all roles.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunities employer and may use AI tools to assist with CV matching while recruitment staff manually review applications.