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title: 'Head of Finance at SigNoz'
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# Head of Finance at SigNoz

- **Company:** SigNoz
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/signoz/787b09cc-c86c-4173-869c-57ca1d5cb7f1

## 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:

- 32,000+ GitHub stars
- 1000+ customers
- 8,000+ members in our Slack community

Role: Head of Finance We're looking for a Head of Finance to build and own the finance function end-to-end. Today we're at meaningful revenue scale with a finance setup that got us here but won't get us to the next stage. Our books are accurate but slow. We can tell you our blended gross margin — we can't yet tell you which customer cohorts, plans, and workloads are actually profitable. That matters more for us than for most SaaS companies: we run petabyte-scale infrastructure, so compute and storage cost per customer is our margin story. You'll report to the CEO, own everything from monthly close to the due-diligence data room, and partner closely with engineering on the cost side of the business. This is a build role. Real revenue, incomplete infrastructure, and you'll be constructing systems while the numbers keep moving.

## What you'll work on

- Controllership: monthly close in under 15 days, revenue recognition for usage-based and contracted plans, statutory audit, AR and collections
- Multi-entity finance across our US and India entities — intercompany, transfer pricing, consolidation
- Compliance: GST, TDS, ROC/MCA, FEMA and RBI filings, ESOP administration and perquisite tax
- Gross margin engineering: partnering with the platform team on infra spend, cloud commitments, and cost per ingested GB
- FP&A: annual operating plan, rolling forecast built from operating drivers, MIS that functional leaders act on
- Cash and treasury: 13-week cash flow, runway, USD/INR exposure, banking and surplus deployment
- Getting us off spreadsheets — ERP, billing ops, expense management, procurement approvals, internal controls
- Building a small, high-leverage finance team as the load grows

What will make you successful

- CA with 8–12 years post-qualification
- You have personally owned a monthly close and a statutory audit — owned, not supervised
- You've built a financial model from operating drivers, been wrong in public about it, and can talk about what you learned
- Working fluency in Indian startup compliance: GST, TDS, ROC, FEMA, ESOP taxation
- Comfortable with messy, incomplete data and willing to ship a defensible answer before the data is perfect
- Strong communication — can explain a margin problem to an engineer and a burn scenario to a board member in the same week
- You'll argue with the CEO using data, and keep the relationship intact

Nice-to-haves

- Big 4 audit or TAS early, followed by real operating years in a funded startup
- Currently #2 in finance at a Series B/C company and ready to run the function
- Multi-entity experience, especially US–India structures
- SaaS or usage-based billing revenue recognition
- You've been through a fundraise from the inside, whatever your role in it

A few things we'll be straight about

- Roughly 40% of year one is unglamorous: GST reconciliations, audit queries, chasing collections. If you only want strategic finance, you'll be restless here for a while.
- You'll find things that are wrong. We'd rather you find them than an auditor or an investor.

## Why you'll love working at SigNoz

- Build a finance function from scratch at a company with real revenue and real momentum
- Huge scope and ownership — you'll own the number, the narrative, and the systems behind both
- Work on a globally used open-source project that engineers actually love
- Remote-first, async-friendly culture
- A finance problem that's genuinely interesting: open-source distribution, usage-based economics, and infrastructure at petabyte scale

## 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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