Staff Backend Engineer - Platform
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