Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, OpenTelemetry

Snowflake
Menlo Park
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 200,000 - 287,500 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Go","Java","Python","JavaScript","TypeScript",".NET","OpenTelemetry","OTel","Collector","SDK","AWS","Azure","GCP","Kubernetes","Apache Iceberg"]

Senior Software Engineer on the OpenTelemetry team focused on telemetry collection and instrumentation for emerging domains (LLM/AI observability, Browser RUM, mobile). You will design OTel Collector components, contribute to upstream OSS, architect the Observe Agent, and help shape OpenTelemetry conventions, leveraging cloud-native experience and multi-vendor collaboration to advance Snowflake’s Observe platform.

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3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, OpenTelemetry

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer on the OpenTelemetry team focused on telemetry collection and instrumentation for emerging domains (LLM/AI observability, Browser RUM, mobile). You will design OTel Collector components, contribute to upstream OSS, architect the Observe Agent, and help shape OpenTelemetry conventions, leveraging cloud-native experience and multi-vendor collaboration to advance Snowflake’s Observe platform.
Location: Menlo Park
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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 (receivers, processors, exporters) and SDK instrumentation libraries that strengthen Observe's position as a leading OTel destination.
  • •Collaborate with the OpenTelemetry open-source community by contributing code, participating in SIG discussions, authoring RFCs, and reviewing pull requests to ensure high-quality contributions.
  • •Architect and own the Observe Agent — our OTel Collector distribution — including its extension points, pipeline architecture, and release strategy.
  • •Contribute to OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions, helping define standardized telemetry schemas for new and evolving technology domains.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 287,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •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, Python, JS/TS, or .NET).
  • •Deep understanding of OTel's architecture: the Collector pipeline model, SDK internals, context propagation, and the semantic conventions specification process.
  • •Experience contributing to open-source projects with multi-vendor governance — consensus-building, RFC authorship, and cross-organizational collaboration.
  • •Experience building cloud-native services and working with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience:5+ yearsOpenTelemetryObservabilityCloud-native
Skills:GoJavaPythonJavaScriptTypeScript.NETOpenTelemetryOTelCollectorSDKAWSAzureGCPKubernetesApache Iceberg
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoJavaPythonJavaScriptTypeScript.NETOpenTelemetryOTelCollectorSDKAWSAzureGCPKubernetesApache Iceberg

Company Brief

Snowflake
Provides a cloud-native data platform for data warehousing, data engineering, data science, and analytics, enabling organizations to store, process, and share large-scale data across multiple cloud providers with elastic scalability and performance.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Bozeman, United States
Founded: 2012
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