Senior Backend Engineer – Platform

🕒 May 18

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SigNoz

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11 - 50 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Software • SaaS • Enterprise

SigNoz is an open-source observability tool designed as an alternative to Datadog and New Relic. It provides a comprehensive platform that integrates application performance monitoring (APM), logs, metrics, traces, exceptions, and alerts in a single tool. SigNoz supports various deployment options including self-hosting and cloud services, and it's built to handle extensive data ingestion, making it suitable for teams of all sizes to monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance application performance efficiently.

📋 Description

• Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go • Making the ingest path robust to bursts while maintaining data freshness • Create a marketplace of integrations: patterns, templates, examples, and tooling to help the community plug SigNoz into their stack • BillingOps, RevenueOps, Caching, Agent collectors, SaaS operations • SaaS auto-scalability

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• 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