Staff Backend Engineer - Platform

About the role

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