Staff 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: 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