Staff Backend Engineer - Core

# 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 - Build alert features with robustness and scalability in mind - Build integration with JIRA, , 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