Signoz
Staff Backend Engineer - Core
3w ago
WorldwideLeadRemotegolangapisdistributed systemsconcurrency
Staff Backend Engineer responsible for building and maintaining the alerts module in an observability platform.
Nice to have
- Past experience in core teams of series B+ startups.
- Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, etc.
Other
- 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
- 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.
- 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 https://signoz.io/docs/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
- 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
- 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