Staff Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation | Spain | Remote

Overview

Staff Software Engineer on the Grafana Alerting squad, working on the open-source Grafana project and the Grafana Cloud alerting and SLOs products, with a focus on OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation.

What you'll do

• Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once they are in the hands of customers.
• Embrace the open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team's scope.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
• Be part of your team's on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you run.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team.
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of the cloud product and customers, and by getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system.

What you'll need

• Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action.
• Customer focused, with a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs.
• Pragmatism: able to take on complex challenges, break them down into short feedback loops, and deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and iterate.
• Good communication skills, as the team works in a fully remote setup.
• An independent attitude.
• Solid experience with at least one programming language. Go is used, and familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar translates well.
• Some experience delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming through to shipping a product to customers in a self-driven way.
• Some experience developing software that runs in the Cloud, or some experience with systems engineering.
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.

Details

• Location: Spain (remote). Applications are considered from Spain.
• Work mode: remote-only, with regular video calls and guidance from the engineering organization.
• Compensation range in Spain: EUR 97,000 - EUR 121,000, which may vary based on level, experience and skillset. Includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Annual leave: 30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.