Sr Backend Engineer - Platform at SigNoz (India)
SigNoz· India· INR 4M–INR 7M·
Role details
Remote-First Culture · Async-Friendly · Opportunity To Shape Open-Source Adoption · Collaboration With High-Caliber Team
Summary
Design and implement scalable backend infrastructure, APIs, and services in Go for an open-source observability platform. The role involves handling petabyte-scale data, ensuring robust ingestion paths, and creating integration patterns for the community.
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: SR BACKEND ENGINEER – PLATFORM
We’re looking for a Sr Beckend 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
- 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 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
Why work at SigNoz
- 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).