Staff Backend Engineer - Core
Role Overview
As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Pulse team at SigNoz, you will build and scale the alerting module, ensuring reliability for 1000s of concurrent alerts. Your day-to-day involves designing robust alert features, integrating with tools like JIRA and incident.io, and implementing high-performance Go services. This senior-level role requires driving initiatives end-to-end and owning critical backend infrastructure in a remote-first environment.
Perks & Benefits
SigNoz offers a remote-first, async-friendly culture with high ownership and autonomy. You'll work on a globally used open-source project with a high-caliber team that ships fast. While specific time zone expectations are not stated, remote roles typically allow flexible hours. Career growth includes shaping the future of open-source observability and collaborating with experienced peers.
Full Job Description
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:
27,000+ GitHub stars
800+ customers
7,000+ members in our Slack community
Role: Staff Backend Engineer – Alerts
We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer – Alerts who works with the Pulse team. The person will be responsible for building features around our alerting module and ensuring reliability when there are 1000s of alerts running.
What you’ll work on
You will be working with the high-caliber team to build the future of alerts at SigNoz. Here are the list of features that exist today https://signoz.io/docs/alerts/
Build alert features with robustness and scalability in mind
Build integration with JIRA, incident.io, etc
Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go
Reliability of alerts
What will make you successful
5–10 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 core teams of series B+ startups.
Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)
Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, etc.
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
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