Overview of SigNoz

• SigNoz is an open-source observability platform designed to help modern engineering teams monitor, debug, and optimize their applications with deep visibility into metrics, traces, and logs all in one place.
• Built natively on OpenTelemetry.
• Offers both self-hosted and cloud options to avoid vendor lock-in.
• Growing fast and building core developer infrastructure products.
• Community and usage stats: 27,000+ GitHub stars, 800+ customers, 7,000+ members in Slack community.

Role Overview - Exceptional Engineer:

• Hiring a very small number of exceptional engineers to raise the average quality of the team.
• Candidates should ship fast and well, proven under high stakes and pace.
• Looking for top-tier engineers known for handling hard, ambiguous, or critical problems.
• Must combine speed with craftsmanship—shipping quickly without leaving a mess.
• Experience in hyper-growth environments with rapid scaling of users, systems, or teams.
• Strong ownership mentality: proactively finding and solving problems regardless of code ownership.
• Strong technical judgment about abstractions, data models, and tradeoffs with humility.

Signals of a great fit include:

• Ownership of systems scaling from thousands to millions of users with firsthand knowledge of pain points.
• Shipping significant work quickly that holds up under scrutiny.
• Side projects or open-source contributions demonstrating passion for building.
• Being an early or key engineer at a fast-growing company with strong peer endorsements.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in observability (monitoring/logging/tracing).
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes.
• Interest or experience as a founder in B2B/devtools.

Why work at SigNoz:

• Work on a globally used open-source project loved by engineers.
• Large scope and ownership impacting how teams adopt SigNoz.
• Collaborate with a high-caliber team focused on shipping quality work.
• Remote-first and async-friendly culture.
• Opportunity to help define the future of open-source observability.