Staff Backend Engineer - Core at SigNoz (India)
SigNoz· India· INR 700k–INR 1M·
Role details
Remote-First Culture · Async-Friendly Environment · High Ownership · Collaboration With High-Caliber Team
Summary
The Staff Backend Engineer will build and maintain the alerting module for SigNoz, ensuring reliability and scalability for thousands of alerts. The role involves designing APIs and services in Go, integrating with tools like JIRA, and driving end-to-end initiatives within a remote-first, high-ownership team.
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: Staff Backend Engineer – Alerts We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer – Alerts who works with the Pulse team. The person will be responsible for building features around our alerting module and ensuring reliability when there are 1000s of alerts running.
What you’ll work on
You will be working with the high-caliber team to build the future of alerts at SigNoz. Here are the list of features that exist today signoz.io/alerts
- Build alert features with robustness and scalability in mind
- Build integration with JIRA, incident.io, etc
- Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go
- Reliability of alerts
What will make you successful
- 5–10 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 core teams of series B+ startups.
- Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, etc.
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).