SigNoz

Sr Backend Engineer - Platform

SigNoz

IndiaFullTimePosted May 18, 2026

Job description

ABOUT SIGNOZ Sig. Noz 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 Open. Telemetry 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: SR BACKEND ENGINEER – PLATFORM We’re looking for a Sr Beckend Engineer – Platform. The platform team at Sig. Noz 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.

  • Billing. Ops, Revenue. Ops, Caching, Agent collectors, SaaS operations
  • Create a marketplace of integrations: patterns, templates, examples, and tooling to help the community plug Sig. Noz 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 - 5–8 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 Open. Telemetry and/or Click. House, 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 Sig. Noz
  • 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