Staff Backend Engineer – Core

SigNoz

Staff Backend Engineer developing features around alerting module for SigNoz. Working with a high-caliber team to ensure reliability in a remote-first environment.

Posted 6/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇳 IndiaLead💰 ₹7,000,000 - ₹10,000,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoOpen Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangAPIsbackend componentsconcurrencylockschannelsdistributed systemsscalable codeopen source contributionsperformance

Soft Skills

strong communication skillsproblem discoverydesignimplementationrollouthigh-ownershipfast-moving environmentremote-first