- 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.
- Designing and shipping an OTel Collector distribution or Kubernetes operator.
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 contributions define the path forward.
- Collaborate with core OTel maintainers and some of the brightest minds in the telemetry ecosystem, with the backing and scale of one of the world's leading data platforms.
- Have a direct feedback loop between your upstream contributions and enterprise customers processing petabytes of OTel data daily through Observe.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee’s duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
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