SigNoz
Observability
StaffBackendEngineer-Platform
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“Staff Backend Engineer - Platform at SigNoz. Skills: golang, distributed systems, OpenTelemetry. handles infra, billing tech, automations, auth, RBAC, caching, scalability of saas, staging envs. handling petabyte-scale data with performance”
What You'll Achieve.
monitor, debug, and optimize their applications with deep visibility into metrics, traces, and logs; run observability the way they want, without vendor lock-in; handling petabyte-scale data with performance; SaaS auto-scalability; Making the ingest path robust to bursts while maintaining data freshness
Industry & Context.
debug; optimize their applications
open-source
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7–10 years of experience in golang, understanding of concurrency, locks, channels, and performance in Go, Experience building distributed systems while writing clean and scalable code, Ability to drive initiatives end-to-end: from problem discovery → design → implementation → rollout, Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-moving, remote-first environment
Nice to Have
Past experience in platform teams of series B+ startups, Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing), Has been, or wants to be, a founder in B2B/devtools
What You'll Do.
handling petabyte-scale data with performance
Create a marketplace of integrations: patterns
Design and implement APIs
and core backend components in Go
SaaS auto-scalability
Making the ingest path robust to bursts while maintaining data freshness
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with high-caliber team who just can't stop shipping
Communication Scope
can write clear tech docs and explain trade-offs
Process & Methodology
Ability to drive initiatives end-to-end: from problem discovery → design → implementation → rollout
Full 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 (moni
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