SigNoz
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StaffBackendEngineer-Platform
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“Staff Backend Engineer - Platform at SigNoz. Skills: Distributed systems, Backend development, Observability. Handle infra. Handle billing tech”
Industry & Context.
Debug applications; Optimize applications
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, Writing clean and scalable code, Ability to drive initiatives end-to-end
Nice to Have
Past experience in platform teams, Experience in observability, Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Familiarity with ClickHouse, Familiarity with Kafka, Familiarity with Kubernetes, Has been a founder, Wants to be a founder
What You'll Do.
Handle scalability of saas
Handle petabyte-scale data
Create a marketplace of integrations
Design core backend components
Implement core backend components
SaaS auto-scalability
Make ingest path robust
Maintain data freshness
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
High-caliber team; Remote-first environment; Async-friendly culture
Communication Scope
Tech docs; Explain trade-offs
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
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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