Technical Support Engineer
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At a glance
Job overview
SigNoz is hiring a Technical Support Engineer. SigNoz is seeking a Technical Support Engineer to join their global open-source project. This role involves solving complex distributed systems problems, debugging OpenTelemetry instrumentation issues, and building processes and automation to improve efficiency for customers and internal teams. The ideal candidate will scale technical operations and grow into a leadership position within the customer engineering function.
Key focus areas include Solve complex distributed systems problems, Create tooling, automation, and processes for customers and internal teams, and Build the foundation for the customer engineering function.
Successful candidates bring 2+ Years DevOps Experience, Strong Learning Skills, and Customer‑Engineering Mindset. Important skills include Debugging OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Issues, Building Processes, Creating Tooling, Automation, Scaling Technical Operations, and Strong Communication Skills.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
About SigNoz SigNoz is a global open source project with users in 50+ countries. We are building an open-source observability platform which helps developers monitor their applications and troubleshoot problems, quickly.
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30,000+ GitHub stars
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900+ customers
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8,000+ members in our Slack community
Why us?
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Opportunity to work in a global dev infra product
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Backed by YC and some of the prominent VCs in the Bay Area
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We are completely remote. No offices
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Founding team member opportunity - build customer engineering function from scratch
What we are looking for This is not your typical support role. If you're looking to just route customer issues to relevant engineers, you should stop reading now.
We're looking for someone who is:
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Technical enough to solve complex distributed systems problems - you need to debug OpenTelemetry instrumentation issues across different tech stacks.
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Great at building processes - you will create tooling, automation, and processes that help both our customers and internal teams operate more efficiently.
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Someone who can scale technical operations - you will build the foundation for customer engineering function and grow into leadership as we scale.
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Strong communication skills - you will frequently go on call with users for debugging issues
Who would be a good fit
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2+ years experience in DevOps or engineering roles working with production systems at scale
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Strong learning skills - you can quickly pick up new technologies and dive deep into complex technical problems
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Hands-on experience with observability tools - SigNoz, Grafana, Prometheus, DataDog, or similar platforms
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OpenTelemetry knowledge - understanding of instrumentation, collectors, and distributed tracing concepts
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Programming skills - can read, write, and debug code in one of Go/Java/Python/JavaScript
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Customer-engineering mindset - enjoy helping other engineers solve technical problems
Who may not be a good fit
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Candidates who are fresh out of college
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Engineers who lack ownership
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