Own and elevate the SigNoz open-source experience, enhancing developer integration and improving user adoption metrics for thousands of engineering teams.
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:
24,000+ GitHub stars
500+ customers
7,000+ members in our Slack community
Open source is not an afterthought at SigNoz — it’s what we set out to build. We believe the future of observability is open source, and that every team (not just the biggest companies) should have access to great tooling.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer – Open Source who will own and elevate the SigNoz open-source experience end-to-end.
This role is for someone who loves building for developers, cares deeply about open source, and wants their work to directly impact how thousands of engineering teams observe and operate their systems.
Your north star: grow SigNoz OSS adoption
You will be responsible for making the SigNoz open-source experience smoother, more powerful, and easier to adopt:
Build an integration framework so developers can easily build, extend, and publish integrations with SigNoz
Improve the self-hosted setup & upgrade experience – from “read-the-docs-5-times” to “up in minutes”
Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go
Own a product roadmap focused on OSS: identify friction points, prioritize features, and ship improvements for open-source users
Create a marketplace of integrations: patterns, templates, examples, and tooling to help the community plug SigNoz into their stack
Instrument, measure, and iterate on OSS adoption metrics (deploys, upgrades, integrations used, etc.)
4–8 years of experience in backend engineering (Go preferred)
Strong understanding of concurrency, locks, channels, and performance in Go
Experience building backend systems, distributed systems, or developer tools
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 design docs and explain trade-offs
Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)
Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and/or ClickHouse, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.
Has been, or wants to be, a founder in B2B/devtools
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 a small, senior, product-obsessed team
Remote-first, async-friendly culture
Opportunity to help define the future of open-source observability
SigNoz builds an open-source observability platform that empowers developers to monitor, trace, and debug their applications with ease. Designed for teams seeking vendor lock-in free telemetry solutions, it leverages OpenTelemetry for efficient problem-solving and enhanced developer productivity. With a vibrant community and strong global presence, SigNoz is positioned to be a game-changer in the observability space.
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