Staff Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation | Spain | Remote

Role overview

Build and operate backend systems for an open-source alerting product and related service-level objectives capabilities. The team works on systems that ingest, evaluate, and deliver alerts at scale, with engineers involved from early design through production operations and customer feedback.

Responsibilities - Shape team priorities and contribute to technical roadmap discussions. - Design, build, operate, and maintain critical services, taking responsibility for reliability, performance, and availability. - Deliver features with the team, then use customer and operational results to guide improvements. - Drive projects from initial concept through deployment and ongoing service ownership. - Participate in on-call rotations and support the services in production. - Mentor colleagues, contribute to design discussions, and engage with open-source projects beyond the immediate team when useful.

Requirements - Strong software engineering skills suited to backend and distributed systems work. - Ability to own services through design, implementation, deployment, and production support. - Customer focus and a self-directed approach to solving problems and moving work forward. - Clear communication and collaboration skills for a remote team working across disciplines. - Interest in learning a large codebase and understanding customer needs and cloud services.

Nice to have - Experience with alerting, observability, or service-level objectives products, including systems that handle high-volume ingestion or evaluation. - Interest in open-source development and contributing across project boundaries.

Benefits and work setup - Remote role open to applicants in Spain, within a globally distributed, remote-first organization. - The listing describes 30 days of annual leave, including designated company shutdown days, subject to local requirements; it also mentions equity and in-person onboarding.