diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index 81f7bb40799..d7c7e0b8011 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -176,6 +176,25 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run tests
         run: tox -e lint-opentelemetry-opentracing-shim
 
+  lint-opentelemetry-opentracing-example:
+    name: opentelemetry-opentracing-example
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repo @ SHA - ${{ github.sha }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python 3.14
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.14"
+
+      - name: Install tox
+        run: pip install tox-uv
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: tox -e lint-opentelemetry-opentracing-example
+
   lint-opentelemetry-opencensus-shim:
     name: opentelemetry-opencensus-shim
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 721db3b6127..591a7f3831c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - logs: add exception support to Logger emit and LogRecord attributes
   ([#4907](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/4907))
 - Drop Python 3.9 support
-  ([#5076](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/5076))
+  ([#5076](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/5076))
+- Fix separate pylint config for opentracing example to resolve `# pylint: disable=import-error` workaround
+  ([#5037](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/5037))
 
 
 ## Version 1.41.0/0.62b0 (2026-04-09)
diff --git a/docs/examples/opentracing/.pylintrc b/docs/examples/opentracing/.pylintrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..91f98df0b46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/opentracing/.pylintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[MASTER]
+init-hook='import sys; sys.path.insert(0, ".")'
+
+[MESSAGES CONTROL]
+disable=missing-docstring,
+        too-few-public-methods
+
+[FORMAT]
+expected-line-ending-format=
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diff --git a/docs/examples/opentracing/rediscache.py b/docs/examples/opentracing/rediscache.py
index 61025eac725..e6d9a1eca85 100644
--- a/docs/examples/opentracing/rediscache.py
+++ b/docs/examples/opentracing/rediscache.py
@@ -7,11 +7,8 @@
 import pickle
 from functools import wraps
 
-# FIXME The pylint disablings are needed here because the code of this
-# example is being executed against the tox.ini of the main
-# opentelemetry-python project. Find a way to separate the two.
-import redis  # pylint: disable=import-error
-import redis_opentracing  # pylint: disable=import-error
+import redis
+import redis_opentracing
 
 
 class RedisCache:
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index e3a7db365ab..1a94a905eef 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ envlist =
     py3{10,11,12,13,14,14t}-test-opentelemetry-opentracing-shim
     pypy3-test-opentelemetry-opentracing-shim
     lint-opentelemetry-opentracing-shim
+    lint-opentelemetry-opentracing-example
 
     py3{10,11,12,13,14}-test-opentelemetry-opencensus-shim
     ; opencensus-shim intentionally excluded from pypy3 (grpcio install fails)
@@ -406,3 +407,13 @@ deps =
   pre-commit
 commands =
   pre-commit run --color=always --all-files {posargs}
+
+[testenv:lint-opentelemetry-opentracing-example]
+deps =
+  -r dev-requirements.txt
+  -r {toxinidir}/docs/examples/opentracing/requirements.txt
+setenv =
+  PYTHONPATH = {toxinidir}/docs/examples/opentracing
+commands =
+  pylint --rcfile {toxinidir}/docs/examples/opentracing/.pylintrc {toxinidir}/docs/examples/opentracing
+  
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