Staff Backend Engineer - Platform

Location

India

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

Compensation

• ₹70L – ₹1Cr • 0.06% – 0.25%

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 12 design 12 implementation 12 rollout
• Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-moving, remote-first environment
• Strong communication skills 12 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 12 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