Staff Backend Engineer - Core
At a glance
Senior Backend Engineering role at SigNoz. Remote, India · full-time · ₹7,000,000–₹10,000,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build alerting capabilities that stay robust as thousands of alerts run
- Connect the alerting system with JIRA, incident.io and similar services
- Create Go APIs, services and foundational backend components
- Keep alert processing reliable while developing and improving the alerts module
What you bring
- You have five to ten years of experience developing in Go
- You understand Go concurrency, including locks and channels, and can address performance
- You have built distributed systems with clean, scalable code
- You can take an initiative from finding the problem through design, implementation and rollout
Who this fits
This role suits a senior backend engineer who enjoys open-source work and taking ownership from discovery through delivery. It is remote in India and described as remote-first and async-friendly.
From the employer
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 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
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
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