Snowflake
Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, OpenTelemetry
$200K–$288K
US-CA-Menlo Park · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 8, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful involvement in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
About the job
Build and guide OpenTelemetry instrumentation, collector components, and the Observe Agent while advancing open-source standards and community contributions.
What you'll do
- Develop telemetry collection and instrumentation for emerging domains such as LLM/AI inference, Browser RUM, and mobile.
- Design and own OTel Collector components and the Observe Agent distribution, including its architecture and release strategy.
- Contribute to OpenTelemetry projects and standards through code, RFCs, reviews, SIG participation, and community collaboration.
What they ask for
- Strong Go programming skills and familiarity with at least one SDK language: Java, Python, JS/TS, or .NET.
- Deep understanding of OpenTelemetry architecture, including the Collector pipeline, SDK internals, context propagation, and semantic conventions.
- Experience contributing to open-source projects with multi-vendor governance, including consensus-building, RFC authorship, and cross-organizational collaboration.
- Experience building cloud-native services and working with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Nice to have
- Approver or maintainer status in an OTel SIG; LLM/AI observability instrumentation; Browser RUM or front-end performance instrumentation; or experience shipping an OTel Collector distribution or Kubernetes operator.
Pay
$200K – $287.5K
Tools
OpenTelemetry, Go, Java, Python, JS/TS, .NET, AWS, Azure
AI focus
Develop instrumentation for LLM/AI inference and observability, including tracing inference chains, token usage, and model performance metrics.
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