Senior Software Engineer (Observe by Snowflake - OpenTelemetry)

Join Snowflake as a Senior Software Engineer on the OpenTelemetry team. You'll drive Observe's open-source strategy, tackle exciting challenges in telemetry collection and instrumentation, and collaborate closely with the OTel community. Your work will include pioneering new instrumentation capabilities, designing and implementing OTel Collector components, and representing Snowflake/Observe in the OTel community. Enjoy comprehensive health insurance, robust retirement plans, generous time-off, and more.

• Contribuer à la stratégie open-source d'Observe au sein de l'écosystème OpenTelemetry, en travaillant sur des défis passionnants dans la collecte et l'instrumentation de la télémétrie.
• Pionnier de nouvelles capacités d'instrumentation dans la communauté OpenTelemetry, en définissant et en construisant la collecte de télémétrie de prochaine génération pour des domaines émergents.
• Collaborer avec la communauté open-source OpenTelemetry en contribuant au code, en participant aux discussions, en rédigeant des RFC et en examinant les demandes de tirage.
• Deep understanding of OTel's architecture: the Collector pipeline model, SDK internals, context propagation, and the semantic conventions specification process
• A passion for open-source software and community engagement, particularly in the observability and telemetry ecosystem
• Experience contributing to open-source projects with multi-vendor governance — consensus-building, RFC authorship, and cross-organizational collaboration
• Strong programming skills in Go (OTel Collector) and familiarity with at least one SDK language (Java, Python, JS/TS, or .NET)
• Strong opinions on instrumentation design: what makes telemetry useful vs. noisy, and how to balance coverage with performance overhead
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful involvement in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem (Collector, SDKs, or instrumentation libraries)
• Experience building cloud-native services and working with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP
• LLM/AI observability instrumentation — tracing inference chains, token usage, model performance metrics
• Approver or maintainer status in an OTel SIG (Collector, SDK, Semantic Conventions, or OpAMP)
• Browser RUM or front-end performance instrumentation
• Designing and shipping an OTel Collector distribution or Kubernetes operator