Staff Backend Engineer

We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer - Alerts who works with the Pulse team. The person will be responsible for building features around our alerting module and ensuring reliability when there are 1000s of alerts running. What you'll work on: You will be working with the high-caliber team to build the future of alerts at SigNoz.

Responsibilities:

• Build alert features with robustness and scalability in mind.
• Build integrations with JIRA, incident.io, etc.
• Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go.
• Reliability of alerts.

Requirements:

• 5-10 years of experience in Go.
• 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:

• Experience in core teams of Series B+ startups.
• Experience in observability (monitoring/logging/tracing).
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, etc.

Skills

Backend, Distributed Systems, Go, Golang