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Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry | Germany | Remote

Grafana LabsGermany (Remote)Product Management
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Salary
€124,571 - €149,485 EUR
Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Posted
25 Aug 2026
Status
Open · checked 9d ago

About this role

Role Overview

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Product Manager, OpenTelemetry to join its globally distributed team for a fully remote position in Germany. This role suits an experienced product professional with a strong technical background in observability who wants to shape how users and AI coding agents instrument workloads and send telemetry data to Grafana Cloud.

Key Responsibilities

Define the product vision, strategy, and cross-product roadmap from uninstrumented workloads to healthy telemetry in Grafana Cloud.
Create coherent, opinionated user experiences across SDK instrumentation, automatic instrumentation, and Collector-based deployments.
Identify and eliminate primary causes of setup failure, misconfiguration, and low-quality telemetry.
Establish shared experience principles and success metrics across multiple engineering teams.
Partner with go-to-market and marketing teams to define product narratives, launches, and adoption programs.
Engage with and contribute to the broader OpenTelemetry ecosystem discussions.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of product management experience within developer tools, observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or complex B2B domains.
Demonstrated ability to lead strategy and execution across multiple product areas or engineering teams without direct authority.
Working knowledge of OpenTelemetry, OTLP, Collector pipelines, telemetry context, and semantic conventions.
Experience building or using instrumentation systems, telemetry collectors, configuration products, or agents.
Familiarity with deploying and operating software across Kubernetes, public cloud environments, and virtual machines.
Strong written and verbal communication skills tailored for a remote, globally distributed organization.

Nice to Have

Experience contributing to or building products around the OpenTelemetry or open source observability ecosystems.
Background with automatic instrumentation, runtime-based instrumentation, or eBPF.
Past firsthand experience operating as an SRE, platform engineer, developer, or observability practitioner.
History of constructing product-led onboarding, telemetry-health, or configuration-validation workflows at scale.

Skills and Tools

Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry SDKs and OTLP
OpenTelemetry Collectors and pipelines
Automatic instrumentation technologies like Beyla and SDK injection
AI tools for research synthesis and prototyping

Salary and Benefits

Base compensation range in Germany is EUR 124,571 to EUR 149,485 per year, varying based on level, experience, and skillset.
Includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to provide ownership in company success.
Global annual leave policy offering 30 days of paid time off per annum, which includes 3 reserved Grafana Shutdown Days.

About the Company

Grafana Labs is the creator of Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform utilized by over 10,000 organizations such as Bloomberg, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Salesforce, and Anthropic. Operating as a 100% remote company with team members spread across more than 40 countries, the organization values an open-source legacy, transparency, autonomy, and collaborative culture. It is backed by prominent investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Coatue.

How to Apply

To apply for this opportunity, please visit the official Grafana Labs careers page and submit your application online.

Skills and tech stack

Kubernetes

Questions candidates ask

Is this job position remote?

Yes, this is a 100% remote position and Grafana Labs is considering candidates located in Germany.

What is the salary range for this role in Germany?

The base compensation range for this role in Germany is EUR 124,571 to EUR 149,485 per year, with actual compensation varying based on experience, level, and skillset.

How many years of experience are required?

Candidates must have 5+ years of product management experience in relevant technical domains like developer tools, infrastructure, or observability.

What benefits are included besides base salary?

All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for company ownership and a global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, which includes 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.

What technical knowledge is needed for the role?

Candidates need a strong working knowledge of OpenTelemetry, including OTLP, SDK instrumentation, Collector pipelines, semantic conventions, and Kubernetes environments.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Grafana Labs careers page.

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