# OpenTelemetry Skill · Cloud Computing and DevOps Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/opentelemetry 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 - Open roles: 52 - Employers hiring: 26 - Median stated pay: $205,000 (middle half $183,000 – $237,000), from 39 of 52 open roles — the 75% 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. - Last checked: September 13, 2026 ## Asked for alongside OpenTelemetry Measured from the 52 open roles that name OpenTelemetry, not from a curated list. - [Kubernetes](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/kubernetes) — 39 roles (75.0%) - [Go](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/go) — 28 roles (53.8%) - [Prometheus](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/prometheus) — 26 roles (50.0%) - [Grafana](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/grafana) — 25 roles (48.1%) - [Terraform](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/terraform) — 25 roles (48.1%) - [Python](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/python) — 24 roles (46.2%) - [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/amazon-web-services-aws) — 21 roles (40.4%) - [Datadog](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/datadog) — 15 roles (28.8%) ## Seniority of these roles - Mid: 5 (10%) - Senior: 33 (69%) - Lead / Staff / Principal: 9 (19%) - Management: 1 (2%) From 48 roles whose posting states a level. ## Roles that use OpenTelemetry - [Software Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/software-engineer) — 28 - [Engineering Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/engineering-manager) — 7 - [Site Reliability Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/site-reliability-engineer) — 5 - [DevOps Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/devops-engineer) — 1 - [Machine Learning Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/machine-learning-engineer) — 1 - [Product Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/product-manager) — 1 ## Employers hiring for OpenTelemetry - [Comcast](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/comcast) — 4 open roles - [Crusoe](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crusoe) — 4 open roles - [Honeycomb](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/honeycomb) — 4 open roles - [LSEG](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/lseg) — 4 open roles - [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia) — 4 open roles - [Grafana Labs](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/grafana-labs) — 3 open roles Related skills: [Prometheus](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/prometheus), [Grafana](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/grafana), [Site Reliability Engineering](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/site-reliability-engineering) ## Open roles requiring OpenTelemetry (52) - [AI Observability Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2698628c-cc0c-4155-a679-7edd3bd76f85/ai-observability-engineer-at-american-international-group) at [American International Group](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/american-international-group) — Atlanta, GA - [Platform Engineering Expert - SAP's Big Data Fabric Services (BDFS)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/b9de95fe-2d55-41a3-8074-bf63c40b953a/platform-engineering-expert-sap-s-big-data-fabric-services-bdfs-at-sap) at [SAP](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/sap) — Full-time, São Leopoldo, BR, 93022-718 - [Senior Observability Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/f9e93c7c-fa62-4f37-b2ef-22deba0cb393/senior-observability-engineer-at-moderna) at [Moderna](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/moderna) - [Senior Engineer – CircleCard Platform](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/92a71e6a-ee06-40c4-a4e1-53dcb9d87cb3/senior-engineer-circlecard-platform-at-target) at [Target](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/target) — 7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445, $98,000 – $176,000 - [Mid/Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform (US Federal)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/f131e3a4-3a62-43e3-acf9-75558600c3b4/mid-senior-software-engineer-developer-platform-us-federal-at-workday) at [Workday](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/workday) — Full-time, Reston, VA, $163,800 – $245,800 - [Engineering Manager, LLM Inference & Deployment at Scale](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/dcba84b4-18c9-411d-af1c-285218505d80/engineering-manager-llm-inference-deployment-at-scale-at-nvidia) at [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia) — Full-time, Santa Clara, CA, $224,000 – $431,250 - [DevOps Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/b3da67c0-a307-4820-ba80-0f479bef2164/devops-engineer-at-lseg) at [LSEG](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/lseg) — Saint Louis, MO - [Manager, Engineering - Dev Ops/SRE (Hybrid)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/827a2abe-1c87-461a-9143-85d20dbcc343/manager-engineering-dev-ops-sre-hybrid-at-crowdstrike) at [CrowdStrike](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crowdstrike) — Full-time, Sunnyvale, CA, $140,000 – $215,000 - [Manager, CDN Automation Development](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/62b589dd-bb99-483c-aaaa-fde0e81e898c/manager-cdn-automation-development-at-comcast) at [Comcast](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/comcast) — Full-time, $143,911 – $215,866 - [Senior Software Engineer, Platform](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/c25b2854-30dc-42fc-b5f7-9756e499fa47/senior-software-engineer-platform-at-wp-engine) at [WP Engine](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/wp-engine) — PLN 244,000 – PLN 335,500 All 52 open roles: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs?skills=b62accef-3fae-4c90-b852-62a8948ec7d7