Staff Backend Engineer - Platform

Department: Engineering

Location: India

Compensation: ₹70L – ₹1Cr • 0.06% – 0.25%

Employment Type: FullTime

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: 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.

• 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

• 7–10 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