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  • Work directly with enterprise customers to deploy and configure OpenTelemetry instrumentation across their environments.
  • Build custom integrations, dashboards, and tooling to help customers realize the full value of Dash0.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems, Kubernetes clusters, and observability pipelines.

Kubernetes OpenTelemetry Go Python Java

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US 6w PTO

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable integrations for metrics, logs, and traces across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
  • Build middleware, libraries, and services to simplify development and observability workflows.
  • Lead technical direction and strategic planning for observability projects.

They are currently looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring in United States. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape and advance cloud observability solutions for large-scale systems, focusing on metrics, logs, and traces.

US

  • Own a named portfolio and drive NRR and adoption
  • Run technical onboarding and get customers to production-grade instrumentation fast
  • Conduct QBRs with economic buyers and engineering leads focused on observability maturity

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that provides metrics, traces, and logs in a single pane, built OpenTelemetry-native from day one. They have 25k+ GitHub stars, 7,000+ Slack community members, and users in 30+ countries and they are YC-backed, fully remote.

$182,000–$217,000/yr
US 6w PTO

  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for a portfolio of Grafana customers.
  • Design the observability maturity journey of customers and assist them on that path.
  • Provide expert-level troubleshooting and guidance to drive adoption.

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with more than 20M users of Grafana around the globe. They help more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack. Their team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything they do.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Guide a globally distributed team in an all-remote setting.
  • Improve deployment patterns and observability for customers.
  • Participate in incident management to support GitLab.com availability.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users, they foster a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange.

  • Build and maintain the observability platform for AI system performance, cost, and quality.
  • Build dashboards for key operational metrics and implement A/B testing infrastructure.
  • Extend tracing infrastructure and build alerting systems for anomalies.

IDC builds AI-powered intelligence platforms helping technology decisions. They are a global provider of technology intelligence and equip business and technology leaders with the evidence they need to make confident decisions.

Europe

  • Design, build, and manage our cloud infrastructure using modern tools (Pulumi) to ensure all infrastructure changes are reproducible, secure, and easily auditable.
  • Orchestrate and optimize our Kubernetes clusters for complex, compute-heavy AI workloads, guaranteeing maximum efficiency and fault tolerance.
  • Implement a flawless monitoring setup using Datadog and OpenTelemetry to make the black box of our distributed systems transparent, hunting down latency spikes or bottlenecks before they impact users.

Deepslate is building Speech to Speech Voice AI models that sound and act indistinguishable from a human, with the belief that everyone should be able to use it. Backed by top-tier investors from the Tech and AI sectors, we are incredibly well-funded and moving fast.

US

  • Define and execute the Customer Experience and Success coverage model for the US region.
  • Recruit, onboard, and develop Customer Experience and Success professionals within the region.
  • Personally manage complex enterprise accounts through the full engagement cycle.

Dash0 is building an AI-centric OpenTelemetry-native platform that eleminates vendor lock-in and toil. Dash0 is growing rapidly, with the United States as a primary strategic market.

$200,000–$285,000/yr
US

  • Spearhead development and implementation of observability tools.
  • Drive performance and ensure resilient systems.
  • Provide technical guidance and improve operational efficiencies.

Jobgether is a platform connecting job seekers with employers using AI-powered matching. They aim to ensure applications are reviewed quickly and fairly, focusing on core role requirements.

Australia

  • Support and implement monitoring and alerting strategy across Kraken’s customer business.
  • Define and uphold observability best practices across multiple products and platforms.
  • Partner with product teams to implement observability tooling and improve reliability across the organisation.

Kraken is a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. Their operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone. They are a Great Place to Work with genuinely decent, honest, and empathetic people.

$72,000–$111,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Enabling faster incident response by improving monitoring coverage, alert accuracy, and root cause visibility
  • Helping teams shift from reactive to proactive operations by applying telemetry data and AI-driven insights
  • Empowering service owners with clear dashboards and actionable insights that guide performance improvements

HealthEquity's mission is to save and improve lives by empowering healthcare consumers. They envision making HSAs as widespread and popular as retirement accounts by 2030, valuing individuals more than their positions and passionate about connecting health and wealth for American families.

US

  • Help deploy and configure Dynatrace OneAgent and ActiveGates with automated tooling.
  • Define and instrument user‑centric metrics and objectives in Dynatrace.
  • Combine Davis® AI with Copilot/Claude to identify root causes and reduce MTTR.

AWP Safety's IT Internship Program is a hands‑on, learning experience for early‑career professionals who want to build a future in IT Site Reliability Engineering. They operate at the intersection of Software Engineering and Systems Operations, using Dynatrace to diagnose performance bottlenecks and automate "toil" out of existence.

US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Partner directly with customers to understand their unique environments, operational constraints, and capability gaps
  • Design and implement custom telemetry integrations; extend Origin's platform to ingest customer-specific data sources, proprietary log formats, and external threat intelligence
  • Build bespoke detection and analytics capabilities; develop custom correlation logic, confidence scoring models, and automation workflows tailored to customer needs

Origin is building the next generation of endpoint security for the Semantic Era. They are backed by Sequoia Capital, Brightmind Ventures, IA Ventures and other top firms. The company is a fully remote team across the US & Canada, built on trust, autonomy, and excellence.

North America

  • Partner with Sales to qualify opportunities and lead technical discovery.
  • Design and deliver compelling demos adapting to both technical and executive audiences.
  • Own the technical POC process ensuring clean handoffs into production.

Andromeda Cluster gives early-stage startups access to scaled AI infrastructure. They work with AI labs, data centers, and cloud providers to deliver compute when and where it’s needed most to build the liquidity layer for global AI compute.

$200,000–$285,000/yr
Global

  • Manage and grow a team of engineers, conducting performance reviews and providing coaching.
  • Define and execute the technical vision for the observability platform.
  • Provide architectural oversight on instrumentation, logging, metrics, and tracing.

Jobgether uses an AI-powered matching process to ensure candidate applications are reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against a role's core requirements. They identify the top-fitting candidates and share this shortlist directly with the hiring company.

Europe

  • Write code, automate everything, design for reliability, and deeply understand the systems.
  • Build or extend Terraform modules and contribute to Platform Engineering around Observability.
  • Collaborate with developers to shape feature design so that reliability is built in, not added later.

InPost Group is an innovative European out of home deliveries company, revolutionizing the way parcels are delivered to customers. With over 10,000 employees worldwide, InPost Group is one of the largest out of home delivery providers in Europe, committed to providing sustainable and efficient delivery solutions.

North America

  • Deliver outstanding support to open-source users and enterprise customers.
  • Develop deep technical expertise in GitOps, Argo, and Akuity’s offerings.
  • Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve customer issues promptly and accurately.

Akuity was founded by the co-creators of Argo to help organizations reliably deploy Argo at scale through enterprise support and enhanced capabilities. Backed by $25 million in funding, they are experiencing rapid growth while staying true to their open-source roots, and their culture is grounded in humility, authenticity, and diversity.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Take an active role in influencing our 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 idea all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20M Grafana users globally. With a global collaborative culture, Grafana Labs fosters transparency, autonomy, and trust in an innovation-driven environment.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Hire, manage, and develop a team of engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting each person’s growth through career conversations.
  • Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering leadership to define goals that move the squad forward and align with broader business objectives.
  • Foster a psychologically safe environment where engineers can learn, experiment, and iterate quickly, encouraging innovation and a culture of continuous improvement.

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with more than 20M users of Grafana. They help more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack. Their team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything they do.

Global

  • Comfortable working in a fully remote environment.
  • Value designing solutions to customer problems.
  • Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to understand incidents.

Humanitec is at the forefront of the Platform Engineering revolution, as enterprise companies across the globe re-shape how they manage their cloud infrastructure. They aim to help platform engineering teams build Internal Developer Platforms that unlock true developer self-service.

Global

  • Contribute to our core product, working across our stack primarily in Go, on services that power our applications.
  • Design and refine technical systems, including microservices, customer interfaces, and automated tests.
  • Collaborate closely across disciplines to explore problems, prototype ideas, and iterate quickly.

Humanitec is at the forefront of the Platform Engineering revolution, as enterprise companies across the globe re-shape how they manage their cloud infrastructure. Their mission is to help platform engineering teams build Internal Developer Platforms that unlock true developer self-service.