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Staff Backend Engineer - Platform

SigNozIndia, TN
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Overview

Schedule
Full-time
Career level
Senior-level
Remote
Remote
Benefits
Career Development

Job Description

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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FAQs About Staff Backend Engineer - Platform Jobs at SigNoz

What is the work location for this position at SigNoz?
This job at SigNoz is located in India, TN, according to the details provided by the employer. Some roles may also include multiple work locations depending on the requirement.
What pay range can candidates expect for this role at SigNoz?
Employer has not shared pay details for this role.
What employment applies to this position at SigNoz?
SigNoz lists this role as a Full-time position.
What experience level is required for this role at SigNoz?
SigNoz is looking for a candidate with "Senior-level" experience level.
Does SigNoz allow remote work for this role?
Yes, this position at SigNoz supports remote work, giving candidates the flexibility to work outside the primary office location.
What benefits are offered by SigNoz for this role?
SigNoz offers Career Development for this position. Actual benefits may vary depending on the employer's policies and employment terms.
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