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OpenTelemetry Linux Jobs
OpenTelemetry is the CNCF standard for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data including traces, metrics, and logs from Linux applications and infrastructure. OpenTelemetry engineers instrument services, deploy and configure the OpenTelemetry Collector, and build observability pipelines that feed data into backends like Prometheus, Jaeger, Grafana Tempo, and Datadog.
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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Yesterday Not disclosed
Palo Alto, California, United States 4d ago $218k – $328k
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New York City, New York, United States May 27 $144k – $180k
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam May 27 Not disclosed
Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 25 Not disclosed
Austin, Texas, United States; Milpitas, California, United States May 22 Not disclosed
London, United Kingdom May 22 Not disclosed
San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States May 22 $115k – $140k
Gurugram, Haryana, India May 22 Not disclosed
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Berlin, Germany May 21 Not disclosed
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New York City, New York, United States May 21 Not disclosed
Zurich, Switzerland May 21 Not disclosed
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United States May 21 Not disclosed
San Francisco, California, United States May 21 Not disclosed
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States May 21 Not disclosed
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India May 21 Not disclosed
Frequently Asked Questions
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The OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-agnostic proxy for receiving, processing, and exporting telemetry data. It runs as a Linux service or Kubernetes DaemonSet and can ingest data from multiple sources, apply transformations, and route to one or more backends simultaneously. It is the central component in most OpenTelemetry deployments.
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OpenTelemetry provides SDKs for all major languages used in Linux environments including Go, Python, Java, Rust, C++, JavaScript, and .NET. Auto-instrumentation agents are available for Java, Python, and Node.js, enabling tracing with minimal code changes.
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OpenTelemetry standardises the instrumentation and collection layer but is not itself a storage or visualisation backend. Prometheus is commonly used as the metrics backend, Jaeger or Grafana Tempo for distributed tracing, and Loki or Elasticsearch for logs. OpenTelemetry replaces vendor-specific agents with a single unified collector.
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OpenTelemetry is replacing proprietary instrumentation agents at the collection layer but not the analysis backends. Most monitoring vendors including Datadog, Dynatrace, and New Relic now accept OpenTelemetry data natively. The industry trend is toward OpenTelemetry for instrumentation combined with a mix of open-source and commercial backends.