Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain .NET application instrumentation using OpenTelemetry.
- Implement distributed tracing, metrics, and logging for .NET applications.
- Develop and enhance auto-instrumentation using CLR Profiler and .NET diagnostics APIs.
- Build custom instrumentation for frameworks, libraries, databases, and messaging systems.
- Ensure compatibility across .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET 5/6/7/8+.
- Analyze and optimize instrumentation performance and overhead.
- Integrate telemetry with OTLP Collector, Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, and observability platforms.
- Develop reusable .NET libraries, SDKs, sample applications, and developer tooling.
- Work closely with application, DevOps, and platform teams to drive observability adoption.
Must Have
- 3+ years of experience in C# / .NET / .NET Core development.
- Strong understanding of .NET runtime internals and CLR.
- Hands-on knowledge of CLR Profiling / CLR Profiler and Diagnostics APIs.
- Understanding of APM, distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and observability.
- Experience with microservices and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry concepts and SDKs.
- Exposure to OTLP, Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability tools.
Good to Have
- Experience with OpenTelemetry .NET Auto-Instrumentation.
- Knowledge of DiagnosticSource, Activity, ActivitySource, EventListener, and .NET diagnostics.
- Experience building reusable .NET SDKs or libraries.
- Docker / Kubernetes and CI/CD experience.
- Experience with databases, message queues, and cloud platforms.
- Contributions to OpenTelemetry or other open-source projects.
- Understanding of cross-language distributed tracing.