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ABOUT SIGNOZ
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ABOUT SIGNOZ SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that helps modern engineering teams monitor, debug, and optimize their applications with deep visibility into metrics, traces, and logs — all in one place. We’re built natively on OpenTelemetry and offer both self-hosted and cloud options, so teams can run observability the way they want, without vendor lock-in. We are growing fast and building core developer infra products. And we are not fooling around:
- 26,000+ GitHub stars
- 700+ customers
- 7,000+ members in our Slack community ROLE: STAFF BACKEND ENGINEER – PLATFORM We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer – Platform. The platform team at SigNoz handles infra, billing tech, automations, auth, RBAC, caching, scalability of saas, staging envs, etc. The team is responsible for handling petabyte-scale data with performance. WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON You will be working with the high-caliber team in some of the below areas.
- BillingOps, RevenueOps, Caching, Agent collectors, SaaS operations
- Create a marketplace of integrations: patterns, templates, examples, and tooling to help the community plug SigNoz into their stack
- Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go
- SaaS auto-scalability
- Making the ingest path robust to bursts while maintaining data freshness WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL
- 7–10 years of experience in golang
- Strong understanding of concurrency, locks, channels, and performance in Go
- Experience building distributed systems while writing clean and scalable code
- Loves open source – ideally with prior contributions to OSS projects (any size)
- Ability to drive initiatives end-to-end: from problem discovery → design → implementation → rollout
- Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-moving, remote-first environment
- Strong communication skills – can write clear tech docs and explain trade-offs NICE-TO-HAVES
- Past experience in platform teams of series B+ startups.
- Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and/or ClickHouse, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.
- Has been, or wants to be, a founder in B2B/devtools WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT SIGNOZ
- Work on a globally used open-source project that engineers actually love
- Huge scope and ownership – your work directly shapes how teams adopt SigNoz
- Collaborate with high-caliber team who just can't stop shipping
- Remote-first, async-friendly culture
- Opportunity to help define the future of open-source observability
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