Staff Backend Engineer - Platform
Role Overview
The Staff Backend Engineer at SigNoz will work on the platform team, focusing on infrastructure, billing technology, and automation while handling petabyte-scale data. With 7-10 years of experience in Golang, this senior role requires designing APIs and core backend components, ensuring scalability and performance. The engineer will have significant ownership over projects that directly impact how teams utilize the observability platform.
Perks & Benefits
Working at SigNoz offers the chance to contribute to a globally recognized open-source project within a remote-first culture that values asynchronous communication. Employees enjoy a high degree of ownership in their work, with opportunities for career growth in a fast-moving environment. The role provides flexibility and collaboration with a talented team committed to delivering impactful solutions.
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:
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
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