Sr Backend Engineer - Platform

    India
    Full-Time
    Mid (3-6 yrs)
    Engineering & Development
    First posted 133 days ago

    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: Sr Backend Engineer – Platform

    We’re looking for a Sr Beckend 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

    • 5–8 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

    Company:  SigNoz

    Open-source observability platform for metrics, traces, logs, alerts, and infrastructure monitoring.
    Remote-First Company
    11-50 employees
    Engineering & DevOps
    HQ: United States