Snowflake09.05.2026
Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, OpenTelemetry
Полная занятостьUS-CA-Menlo Park
Обязанности
- 01Pioneer new instrumentation capabilities in the OpenTelemetry community, defining and building next-generation telemetry collection for emerging domains including LLM/AI inference, Browser RUM, and mobile
- 02Design and implement OTel Collector components (receivers, processors, exporters) and SDK instrumentation libraries that strengthen Observe's position as a leading OTel destination
- 03Collaborate with the OpenTelemetry open-source community by contributing code, participating in SIG discussions, authoring RFCs, and reviewing pull requests to ensure high-quality contributions
- 04Architect and own the Observe Agent — our OTel Collector distribution — including its extension points, pipeline architecture, and release strategy
- 05Contribute to OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions, helping define standardized telemetry schemas for new and evolving technology domains
- 06Work with product and field engineering teams to translate customer instrumentation challenges into upstream contributions and product features
- 07Represent Snowflake/Observe in the OTel community — present at conferences, build relationships with maintainers at other vendors, and drive consensus on specification decisions
Требования
- 015+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful involvement in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem (Collector, SDKs, or instrumentation libraries)
- 02Strong programming skills in Go (OTel Collector) and familiarity with at least one SDK language (Java, Python, JS/TS, or .NET)
- 03Deep understanding of OTel's architecture: the Collector pipeline model, SDK internals, context propagation, and the semantic conventions specification process
- 04Experience contributing to open-source projects with multi-vendor governance — consensus-building, RFC authorship, and cross-organizational collaboration
- 05Experience building cloud-native services and working with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP
- 06A passion for open-source software and community engagement, particularly in the observability and telemetry ecosystem
- 07Strong opinions on instrumentation design: what makes telemetry useful vs. noisy, and how to balance coverage with performance overhead