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# Developer Relation Engineer (US, SF Bay Area) at SigNoz

- **Company:** SigNoz
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $150k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/signoz/6d8e4b0d-f1d1-439c-882f-7a26cc547abf

## Job description

## Why this role exists

SigNoz is an open source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry: logs, metrics and traces in one tool. It's designed for an era where agents and humans run observability together. We are a YC company with 32K+ GitHub stars Some of the most interesting AI and infrastructure teams in the Bay Area run on SigNoz, including Kernel and Sail Research. Their engineers have great stories about how they debug and scale production systems. Very few of those stories get told today Your job is to fix that. You'll be the face of SigNoz in the Bay Area: on stage at meetups, on camera with customers, and in the room at events.

## What you will own

1. Customer stories (the biggest lever)

- Find Bay Area customers with a story worth telling: how they moved off an incumbent tool, scaled to billions of events, or debug AI agents in production.
- Visit them, interview their engineers and film technical videos and case studies on site. You run the conversation and the technical depth.
- Turn those relationships into references, quotes and talks that help sales close deals.

1. Talks, meetups and events

- Speak regularly at Bay Area meetups: OpenTelemetry, cloud native and Kubernetes, AI engineering, SRE and platform engineering.
- Host small, high-quality events: engineering dinners, roundtables and SigNoz meetups for the teams we want to work with.
- Represent SigNoz at conferences like KubeCon and SRECON, AI meetups through talks, booths or side events.

1. Webinars and live content

- Host and present webinars with customers and our engineers: deep dives, migrations and live debugging sessions. Our India team runs the logistics and promotion. You make the content worth showing up for.
- Write or record technical content when the story needs a first-hand voice.

1. Work with sales

- Join our Account Executive and Forward Deployed Engineer on customer visits when a technical talk or workshop will help.
- Bring what you hear from customers and the community back to product and marketing.

How the role grows This role starts hands-on: you plan your own calendar, run the events and give the talks yourself. Once the motion reliably produces stories, community and pipeline, you can build a small US DevRel and field team around it.

What success looks like

- 30 days: You've run SigNoz yourself on a real app and know the product, the customers and the team. You've mapped the Bay Area meetups worth being part of. Your first customer story is in production.
- 90 days: You've published three customer stories, spoken at four or more meetups, hosted the first SigNoz dinner or meetup, and run at least two webinars.
- 12 months: You publish customer stories and host events every month. Bay Area infra and AI engineers know SigNoz through you. Sales can point to deals that started at your events or were won with your stories.

Who we think fits

- 3+ years as a software engineer, SRE, platform engineer, solutions engineer or developer advocate. You don't need a DevRel title. Many of the best people for this role are engineers who became the person their team sends to give the talk, write the post or meet the customer.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.
- You like explaining technical things to people, and you have some public proof: a talk, a blog post, a popular open source project, a meetup you organized, or customer-facing work. You're comfortable on camera
- You understand production systems: Observability, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure or AI infrastructure. You can run a demo, answer hard questions and write code when needed. You don't need to be expert in this, but should be able to understand.
- You're self-directed. You build your own plan and calendar, follow up with people without being reminded, and measure the results.
- You enjoy meeting people. You come back from an event with names, follow-ups and a story idea.
- You're based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or will move here, and can travel about 20% of the time.

Bonus points

- You've given conference or meetup talks.
- You've organized or grown a meetup or developer community.
- You've done developer relations at a developer-tools or infrastructure startup.
- You've contributed to open source
- You're already part of the Bay Area AI engineering scene.

## Why SigNoz

- Real product pull. Thousands of teams use SigNoz, including some of the most interesting AI companies in the Bay Area.
- Work directly with the CEO, who is also based in the Bay Area.
- Build the US community function from the start, with budget and a clear path to leading it.

## About SigNoz

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that provides logs, metrics, traces, and alerts under a single pane of glass, serving as an alternative to Datadog and New Relic.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Pranay Prateek (CEO) and Ankit Nayan (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Observability, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Software Development, DevOps
- **Target customers**: B2B; high-growth engineering teams, platform engineers, and DevOps teams at startups to public enterprises
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To help developers find signals (actionable insights) from the noise of their observability systems, building more reliable products through a single, open-source platform.

## Products & Services
- **SigNox Cloud**: A fully managed, SOC 2 compliant observability platform hosted by SigNoz, live in minutes.
- **SigNoz Self-Hosted**: Deployable via Helm chart in your own VPC or air-gapped environment for complete data privacy and compliance (HIPAA, GDPR).
- **SigNoz BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)**: SigNoz manages the stack inside the customer’s AWS/GCP/Azure account; data never leaves the customer’s VPC.
- **Agent Native Observability**: Connect SigNoz to coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) to debug production issues directly from the dev environment.
- **Noz (AI Teammate)**: An AI-powered feature for natural language observability, allowing users to talk to their observability stack in English.
- **Core Modules**: Distributed Tracing, Log Management, Metrics & Dashboards, Alerts, Infrastructure Monitoring, and LLM/AI Observability (token-level tracing, per-model cost attribution).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$6.5M**; Annual Revenue of **$3.0M** (estimated)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: **SignalFire** (lead investor in seed round), Y Combinator (backed). Notable partners include the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - **Headcount**: 49 employees (+52.9% YoY, +18 people)
  - **GitHub Stars**: 24,000+
  - **Community Members**: 4,500+
  - **LinkedIn Followers**: 8,174 (+42.4% YoY)
  - **Data Scale**: Proven track record of handling 10TB+ data ingestion per day.
  - **Global Reach**: Used by teams across 5 continents; operates in 5 countries (US, India, Brazil, Chile, Afghanistan).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open Source + OpenTelemetry Native**: Built from the ground up for OpenTelemetry, preventing vendor lock-in. Instrumentation remains a company asset.
- **Single Pane of Glass**: Unifies logs, metrics, and traces in one highly optimized backend (ClickHouse), enabling correlated debugging.
- **Cost Predictability**: Usage-based, transparent pricing with no per-host penalties for auto-scaling and no special pricing for custom metrics.
- **Enterprise-Grade**: SOC 2 Type II, fine-grained RBAC, support for high-cardinality data, and 24x7 expert support.
- **AI-Native Observability**: Correlates AI/LLM workloads with the entire infrastructure (databases, microservices, applications), unlike siloed LLM-only tools.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & LLM Workload Observability**: Deepening capabilities for monitoring AI applications, including token-level tracing and cost attribution.
- **Agent Native Observability**: Integrating with development agents to reduce MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) by allowing debugging directly from the coding environment.
- **Scale and Performance**: Continued optimization of the ClickHouse-based ingestion engine to handle high-cardinality and massive data volumes (10TB+/day).
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Expanding enterprise features (RBAC, compliance, self-hosted/BYOC) and support plans to win larger customers.
- **Community Growth**: Nurturing the open-source community (24k+ GitHub stars, 4.5k+ community members) to drive adoption and contributions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: A developer-first, open-source company obsessed with the "signal vs noise" problem. The team is highly technical and distributed globally.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Remote-friendly, with a significant presence in India (38 employees) and the US (6 employees). The company operates across 5 countries.
- **Engineering Culture**: Deep expertise in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, log pipeline design, and cost governance. Engineers work on a high-scale, high-impact product used by thousands.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth (+52.9% YoY) and increasing job postings (+250% YoY), indicating a scaling phase with ample opportunity for impact.
- **Notable Perks**: Work with a modern stack (ClickHouse, Go, OpenTelemetry), contribute to a leading open-source project, and solve hard problems at scale.
- **Current Open Roles**: Forward Deployed Engineer, Sr Backend Engineer - Platform, Growth Marketing (India/EU/US), Founding DevRel, Founding Designer, and others (7 active postings as of mid-2026).

## Sources
1. [signoz.io](https://signoz.io/)
2. [signoz.io/about-us](https://signoz.io/about-us/)
3. [signoz.io/why-signoz](https://signoz.io/why-signoz/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/signozio](https://www.linkedin.com/company/signozio)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/SigNoz](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/SigNoz)

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