Staff Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation | Spain | Remote
Core
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed systems for Grafana Alerting and SLOs products, focusing on scaling alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery at infinite scale.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Backend, Distributed Systems)
Builds
Distributed systems for alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery; SLOs product features
Domain
Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Required skills
Distributed systems design, Cloud systems engineering, Python, Go, System reliability, On-call ownership, Technical mentorship, Product roadmap influence
Preferred skills
Open-source contribution, Cross-team collaboration, Complex problem decomposition
Technologies
Python, Go, Prometheus, Grafana Cloud
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable alert evaluation systems; Mentor team members and participate in design discussions; Own service reliability and on-call rotations; Drive projects from ideation to customer delivery; Contribute to open-source projects
