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title: 'Exceptional Engineer at SigNoz'
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# Exceptional Engineer at SigNoz

- **Company:** SigNoz
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/SigNoz/3b07b93a-aa97-4a4e-8b12-7c9c3273cf8c/application

**Skills:** Observability, Monitoring, Logging, Tracing, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, B2B, Devtools

> SigNoz is seeking a top-tier engineer to join its core team, focusing on rapid shipping and high-quality code in a remote-first environment. The role targets individuals with proven experience in scaling systems and owning complex technical problems during periods of hyper-growth.

## 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: Exceptional Engineers We are hiring a very small number of exceptional engineers. We are not trying to fill seats — we are trying to raise the average. If you join, the bar for everyone after you goes up. This role is for people who ship fast and ship well, and who have already proven they can do that when the stakes and the pace were highest. If that's you, the rest of this will read as an invitation rather than a wishlist.

## What we're looking for

We're hiring for a specific profile, not a checklist of years. The signals that matter to us:

- You operate in the top tier of engineers you've worked with. You're usually the person others go to when something is hard, ambiguous, or on fire. Your past managers and peers would describe you as one of the strongest engineers they've worked alongside.
- You combine speed with craft. You ship quickly without leaving a mess behind you. You have strong instincts for what deserves polish and what just needs to work, and you rarely confuse the two.
- You've done this during hyper-growth. At a previous company, you were a core engineer while it scaled fast — rapid user growth, scaling systems, scaling teams, or all three. You've felt what breaks at scale and you've fixed it in production, not in theory.
- You take real ownership. You don't wait to be assigned problems; you find them, scope them, and close them. When something is broken, you treat it as yours regardless of whose code it is.
- You have strong technical taste. Good judgment about abstractions, data models, and tradeoffs — and the humility to change your mind when the evidence does.

Signals that you might be a great fit You don't need all of these, but several should resonate:

- You've owned a system that went from "works for a few thousand users" to "works for millions" — and you remember exactly where it hurt.
- You've shipped something significant in a window that surprised people, and it held up.
- You have side projects, open-source contributions, or a track record that shows you build because you can't help it.
- You've been an early or key engineer somewhere that grew up fast, and people there would fight to work with you again.

Nice-to-haves

- Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, 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

## 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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