<h1>About SigNoz</h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are growing fast and building core developer infra products.<br>And we are not fooling around:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">27,000+ GitHub stars</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">800+ customers</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">7,000+ members in our Slack community</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Role: Staff Backend Engineer – Alerts</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What you’ll work on</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">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 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://signoz.io/docs/alerts/">https://signoz.io/docs/alerts/</a></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build alert features with robustness and scalability in mind</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build integration with JIRA, incident.io, etc</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Reliability of alerts</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What will make you successful </h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">5–10 years of experience in golang</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong understanding of concurrency, locks, channels, and performance in Go</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience building distributed systems while writing clean and scalable code</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Loves open source – ideally with prior contributions to OSS projects (any size)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ability to drive initiatives end-to-end: from problem discovery → design → implementation → rollout</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-moving, remote-first environment</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong communication skills – can write clear tech docs and explain trade-offs</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Nice-to-haves</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Past experience in core teams of series B+ startups.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, etc.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2>Why you’ll love working at SigNoz</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work on a globally used open-source project that engineers actually love</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Huge scope and ownership – your work directly shapes how teams adopt SigNoz</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate with high-caliber team who just can't stop shipping</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Remote-first, async-friendly culture</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Opportunity to help define the future of open-source observability</p></li></ul>
