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Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, OpenTelemetry

US-CA-Menlo Park💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-08 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and implement OpenTelemetry Collector components and SDK instrumentation libraries to power Snowflake's AI-powered observability platform, focusing on emerging domains like LLM/AI and Browser RUM.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (OpenTelemetry ecosystem)

Builds

OTel Collector components (receivers, processors, exporters), SDK instrumentation libraries, and the Observe Agent distribution

Domain

Cloud-native observability, OpenTelemetry standards, LLM/AI instrumentation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Go, OpenTelemetry Collector architecture, SDK internals, open-source community collaboration, cloud-native services, semantic conventions

Preferred skills

LLM/AI observability instrumentation, Browser RUM, Kubernetes operator design

Technologies

Go, OpenTelemetry, Apache Iceberg, AWS, Azure, GCP

Responsibilities

Pioneer new instrumentation capabilities for LLM/AI and Browser RUM; Design and implement OTel Collector components and SDK libraries; Contribute to the OpenTelemetry open-source community via code, RFCs, and SIG discussions; Architect and own the Observe Agent distribution; Contribute to OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions; Represent Snowflake in the OTel community at conferences and with other vendors

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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