Sr Backend Engineer - Platform
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 Apply To This Job