Skill
OpenTelemetry
Cloud Computing and DevOps
OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework providing a standardized set of APIs, libraries, and tools for collecting metrics, logs, and distributed traces from software systems. Site reliability engineers and backend developers use it to instrument applications for monitoring performance and diagnosing issues across microservices architectures, feeding data into backends like Jaeger, Prometheus, or Datadog.
OpenTelemetry in the job market
Last checked October 28, 2026
- Open roles
- 47
- Employers
- 30
- Median pay
- $223,000
- Disclose pay
- 70%
on Career App
hiring for it
from 33 roles
of these roles
Open roles requiring OpenTelemetry (47)
Site Reliability Engineer
Supabase
Full-time · Remote, Global
A distributed SRE role focused on establishing reliability practices and frameworks across Supabase's engineering organization rather than owning infrastructure directly. This suits someone with deep SRE experience who wants to drive systemic improvements and influence multiple teams through expertise and collaboration.
Listed on Supabase’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Senior Technical Support Engineer
LangChain
Washington, DC · $130,000 – $195,000 · Remote
LangChain seeks a senior troubleshooter to handle escalations from AI engineers and infrastructure teams deploying production LLM applications, partnering with engineering and product to resolve complex issues and improve support processes. The role combines deep technical triage, mentorship of support staff, and advocacy for customer needs across a platform used by Fortune 500 companies.
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Staff Software Engineer - Core Platform
StubHub
New York, NY · $300,000 – $350,000
StubHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and operational delivery of their core streaming and storage platforms, which process tens of billions of events daily across 100+ internal service teams. This role suits an experienced platform engineer with a track record of operating distributed systems at scale and leading large infrastructure migrations, who can set technical direction and mentor a team while managing compliance and performance of mission-critical infrastructure.
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Sr. Reliability Engineer
Hims and Hers
Full-time · US Remote · $140,000 – $165,000
A reliability engineer role focused on building observability systems, automation, and incident response tooling to keep Hims & Hers' healthcare platform running smoothly at scale. This suits someone who enjoys deep debugging across distributed systems, shipping tooling that improves how teams respond to outages, and helping organizations mature their operational practices.
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Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Streaming (Contractor)
Bend Studio
Contract · Aliso Viejo, CA
Sony is hiring a senior engineer to design and operate the server infrastructure powering their cloud gaming service across a global network. This role suits someone with deep production systems experience who enjoys solving complex distributed systems problems and wants to work on technology that delivers games to millions of players.
Listed on Bend Studio’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Staff Platform Engineer
Prefect
Full-time · Remote · $214,000 – $309,000
Prefect seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to help build and scale their agentic orchestration platform in the cloud, working on large-scale distributed systems that serve mission-critical workloads for Fortune 500 companies. This role suits experienced infrastructure engineers who excel at operating resilient systems, setting reliability standards, and mentoring teams to higher technical standards.
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Software Engineer, ML Developer Experience
Anyscale
San Francisco, CA · $226,000 – $283,000 · Remote
This role owns the user-facing layer of Anyscale's distributed ML platform, building CLIs, SDKs, APIs, and observability tools that let developers run AI workloads from laptop to cluster. It suits someone with strong production engineering chops and product sense who enjoys building developer tooling and ML infrastructure.
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Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry | US | Remote
Grafana Labs
Full-time · United States (Remote) · $208,602 – $250,322
This role leads product strategy for OpenTelemetry integration across Grafana Cloud, owning the end-to-end experience from initial setup through successful telemetry ingestion. It suits experienced product leaders comfortable with infrastructure complexity who want to shape how developers and AI agents instrument distributed systems.
Listed on Grafana Labs’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Product Manager, Observability
Vercel
New York, NY · $172,000 – $258,000
Lead product strategy for Vercel's observability suite, deciding what to build natively versus integrating with third-party vendors like Datadog and Grafana. This role suits someone with deep infrastructure product experience who can translate customer needs and usage data into a coherent roadmap while working closely with engineering and design teams.
Listed on Vercel’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Fullstack Engineer
Krea AI
Full-time · San Francisco, CA
Krea is hiring a full-stack engineer to build AI-powered creative tools with a strong focus on frontend work. You'll own both the web and mobile experience while maintaining backend services, working on real-time features and scalable infrastructure in a creative-focused team.
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Asked for alongside OpenTelemetry
Measured from the 47 open roles that name OpenTelemetry — not from a curated list.
- Kubernetes39 roles83.0%
- Prometheus27 roles57.4%
- Grafana23 roles48.9%
- Python22 roles46.8%
- Go21 roles44.7%
- Terraform21 roles44.7%
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)20 roles42.6%
- Datadog15 roles31.9%
What employers state they pay
Median
$223,000
Middle half
$193,000 – $245,000
From 33 of 47 open roles — the 70% that publish a range, annualized to USD. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it.
Who employers are hiring
- Mid9%
- Senior63%
- Lead / Staff / Principal21%
- Management7%
From 43 roles whose posting states a level.
Roles that use OpenTelemetry
Employers hiring for OpenTelemetry
30 in total, most open roles first.
Related skills
Curated neighbors in the taxonomy, whether or not employers ask for them together.