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Sr Backend Engineer - Platform

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
English

Other Skills

  • Adaptability
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 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 with prior contributions to OSS projects (any size)

Requirements:

  • Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go
  • SaaS auto-scaling and making the ingest path robust to bursts while maintaining data freshness
  • Create a marketplace of integrations: patterns, templates, examples, and tooling to help the community plug SigNoz into their stack
  • Work across BillingOps, RevenueOps, caching, agent collectors, and SaaS operations to support platform infra and scalability

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: 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

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