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Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, OpenTelemetry

Snowflake · Engineering

Location
Menlo Park, California, United States
Metro
San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace
Unspecified
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Pay
$200K–$288K/yr (published by employer)
Posted
6 months ago
Source
Ashby

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About the company

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate…

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - OBSERVE BY SNOWFLAKE, OPENTELEMETRY, YOU WILL

Pioneer 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. Design and implement OTel Collector components…

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE

5+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful involvement in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem (Collector, SDKs, or instrumentation libraries). Strong programming skills in Go (OTel Collector) and familiarity with at least one SDK language (Java,…

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH

Approver or maintainer status in an OTel SIG (Collector, SDK, Semantic Conventions, or OpAMP). LLM/AI observability instrumentation — tracing inference chains, token usage, model performance metrics. Browser RUM or front-end performance instrumentation.…

WHY JOIN THE OPENTELEMETRY TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

Be part of Snowflake's strategic investment in open-source observability — shaping the standards the entire industry builds on. Work on high-impact instrumentation challenges in emerging domains (LLM/AI, Browser RUM) where conventions don't yet exist and your…