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
5+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful involvement in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem (Collector, SDKs, or instrumentation libraries)
Strong programming skills in Go (OTel Collector) and familiarity with at least one SDK language (Java, Python, JS/TS, or .NET)
Deep understanding of OTel's architecture: the Collector pipeline model, SDK internals, context propagation, and the semantic conventions specification process
Experience contributing to open-source projects with multi-vendor governance — consensus-building, RFC authorship, and cross-organizational collaboration
Experience building cloud-native services and working with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP
A passion for open-source software and community engagement, particularly in the observability and telemetry ecosystem
Strong opinions on instrumentation design: what makes telemetry useful vs. noisy, and how to balance coverage with performance overhead