Staff OpenTelemetry Python Engineer at Grafana Labs

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Develop the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries, especially tracing for AI agents and generative AI. This remote posting is based in the United Kingdom; the employer also considers candidates in the UK, Ireland and Spain.

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Location: Remote
Advertised region: United Kingdom (Remote)
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: Python

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Role overview

Grafana Labs builds Grafana Cloud and works with the OpenTelemetry community. This staff engineer develops Python SDK and instrumentation capabilities that help users observe production software, including AI and agent workflows.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries with upstream maintainers, contributing to specifications and API choices.
Instrument model calls, agent runs and tool execution across asynchronous Python code while protecting sensitive data and controlling metric cardinality.
Profile SDK performance, balance runtime overhead with compatibility, and own projects through design, testing, documentation and release.
Guide engineers and customer-facing teams, investigate instrumentation issues, and share practical OpenTelemetry guidance.

Qualifications

At least eight years of software development, with strong Python expertise and experience debugging production libraries, language internals and asynchronous code.
Experience working with open-source communities and familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
Ability to set technical direction, mentor others and communicate effectively in a remote team; AI instrumentation or Rust experience is useful but not required.

Technology in this role

Python: Develop and maintain OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries with upstream maintainers, contributing to specifications and API choices.

Benefits

The posting describes remote work, restricted stock units and country-specific compensation. Grafana Labs also lists an annual leave policy and in-person onboarding.

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs develops Grafana Cloud and open-source observability software that helps teams examine metrics, logs and traces. The employer describes itself as a fully remote company.

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Source checked: 2026-11-12

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