Staff Backend Engineer - Platform
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Job overview
SigNoz is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer - Platform. SigNoz is an open‑source observability platform that helps engineering teams monitor, debug, and optimize applications with metrics, traces, and logs. The company is rapidly growing and seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to work on core infra, billing, automation, auth, RBAC, caching, and SaaS scalability, handling petabyte‑scale data with high performance.
Key focus areas include Build billing and revenue operations systems, Create a marketplace of integrations for community plug‑ins, and Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go.
Successful candidates bring 7-10 Years Of Experience In Golang. Important skills include Go, Concurrency, Locks, Channels, Distributed Systems, and Clean And Scalable Code. Preferred (not required): Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Tracing.
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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:
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26,000+ GitHub stars
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700+ customers
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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.
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BillingOps, RevenueOps, Caching, Agent collectors, SaaS operations
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Create a marketplace of integrations: patterns, templates, examples, and tooling to help the community plug SigNoz into their stack
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Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go
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SaaS auto-scalability
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Making the ingest path robust to bursts while maintaining data freshness
What will make you successful
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7–10 years of experience in golang
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Strong understanding of concurrency, locks, channels, and performance in Go
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Experience building distributed systems while writing clean and scalable code
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Loves open source – ideally with prior contributions to OSS projects (any size)
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Ability to drive initiatives end-to-end: from problem discovery → design → implementation → rollout
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Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-moving, remote-first environment
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Strong communication skills – can write clear tech docs and explain trade-offs
Nice-to-haves
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Past experience in platform teams of series B+ startups.
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Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)
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Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and/or ClickHouse, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.
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Has been, or wants to be, a founder in B2B/devtools
Why you’ll love working at SigNoz
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Work on a globally used open-source project that engineers actually love
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Huge scope and ownership – your work directly shapes how teams adopt SigNoz
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Collaborate with high-caliber team who just can't stop shipping
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Remote-first, async-friendly culture
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Opportunity to help define the future of open-source observability
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