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title: 'Sr Backend Engineer - Platform at SigNoz'
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# Sr Backend Engineer - Platform at SigNoz

- **Company:** SigNoz
- **Location:** India
- **Compensation:** INR 4M–INR 7M
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/SigNoz/e8c0ae83-391b-4c68-be61-ca32392d223f/application

**Skills:** Go, Concurrency, Distributed Systems, API Design, BillingOps, RevenueOps, Caching, Agent collectors, SaaS Operations, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kafka, Kubernetes, Observability, Monitoring, Logging, Tracing

> 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

## 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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