OllyGarden helps engineering teams get reliable OpenTelemetry data. Its AI agent, Rose, reviews customer code, opens pull requests that fix instrumentation problems and migrates services off proprietary agents. OllyGarden is hiring a senior AI Software Engineer in Berlin to build Rose with a small team and own its open source agent skills.
About OllyGarden
Mission: Reliable OpenTelemetry data for engineering teams
Product: Rose, an AI agent for OpenTelemetry instrumentation
Open Source: Agent skills that give coding agents accurate, current OpenTelemetry knowledge
Codebase: TypeScript: Cloudflare Workers control plane, sandboxed agent runs and an in-house agent harness
Why This Role?
Ownership: Build Rose features from spec to production
Small Team: Report directly to the CEO
Open Source: Maintain public agent skills used by coding agents everywhere
Process: Practical hiring, including a paid exercise based on a real Rose problem
Position Overview
As AI Software Engineer, you build Rose features from specification to production, starting with GitLab support and a flow that turns telemetry findings into fixes across a customer’s repositories. You make agent runs reliable with structured output, retries, long-running sandbox jobs and stable findings. You build evaluations that show whether a prompt or model change improved Rose and what it cost, engineer context for agents working on Go, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Python and .NET code, and maintain open source agent skills in step with each OpenTelemetry release.
Why This Role Matters: Few AI jobs let you ship a real agent product end to end with measurable quality. You work in a small team, own public open source skills and see your work used in customer code. The role is product engineering, not research, so the focus stays on building and running systems that work.
Key Responsibilities
Product Engineering
- Build Rose features from spec to production, starting with GitLab support
- Turn telemetry findings into fixes across a customer’s repositories
Agent Reliability & Evals
- Make agent runs reliable: structured output, retries, long-running sandbox jobs and stable findings
- Build evaluations showing whether prompt or model changes help, and at what cost
Context & Open Source
- Engineer context for agents reviewing Go, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Python and .NET code
- Maintain open source agent skills, review community contributions and require evals for changes
- Support customer engineers with Customer Success when needed
Qualifications & Requirements
Required
- Senior engineering experience, including an LLM agent or AI-assisted product shipped to production and kept running
- Strong TypeScript and backend skills: APIs, webhooks, durable workflows and Postgres
- Evidence of measuring LLM quality with evals, golden sets or production signals
- Comfort reading and safely changing code in unfamiliar languages
- Clear writing and an async-first way of working
- Based in Europe or Latin America
Bonus
- OpenTelemetry or observability tooling experience
- Open source maintenance, especially in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem
- Agent skills, plugins or MCP servers for coding agents
- GitHub App or GitLab integrations, sandboxed execution, Cloudflare Workers or Bun
- Enthusiasm for sharing work publicly
Hiring Process
- Conversation with a Rose team engineer
- Technical deep dive into an agent system you shipped
- Paid, self-contained exercise based on a real Rose problem
- Conversation with the CEO and reference calls
About OllyGarden
OllyGarden helps engineering teams get reliable OpenTelemetry data. Its agent Rose reviews customer code, fixes instrumentation problems through pull requests, adds baseline instrumentation and migrates services off proprietary agents. The company also publishes open source agent skills for coding agents.
How to Apply: The posting gives no application link, so apply through OllyGarden’s careers page. Note that this is a product engineering role, not ML research, model training or data science.
Who Should Apply?
- Senior TypeScript Engineers: Who have shipped LLM products
- AI Agent Developers: With evals and reliability experience
- Observability Engineers: Interested in OpenTelemetry
- Open Source Maintainers: Who like public work
- Backend Engineers: Based in Europe or Latin America
Recently Opening Job👇
