Staff Backend Engineer - Core

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

The Staff Backend Engineer – Alerts will own the design and delivery of high‑scale alerting features for SigNoz’s open‑source observability platform. You’ll build robust Go services, integrate with incident‑management tools, and ensure reliability for thousands of concurrent alerts in a remote‑first environment.

Role Snapshot

• Staff Backend Engineer
• Alerts module
• Go (Golang)
• Distributed systems
• Remote‑first
• High ownership
• Open‑source focus

Must-Have Requirements

• Go
• Concurrency (locks, channels)
• Distributed systems design
• API design & implementation
• Backend services development
• Go development
• Concurrency
• Distributed systems

Nice-to-Have Signals

• OpenTelemetry familiarity
• ClickHouse familiarity
• Kubernetes familiarity
• JIRA / incident.io integration familiarity
• Open‑source contributions
• Series B+ startup experience
• Observability domain experience
• OpenTelemetry
• Observability
• Series B+ startup background
• observability
• monitoring
• logging
• tracing

Work Setup

• Location: India
• Work mode: REMOTE
• Remote scope: COUNTRY_RESTRICTED
• Remote countries: India
• Employment type: Full-Time

Eligibility Gates

• Visa sponsorship: unknown

Not Specified in JD

• Visa sponsorship
• Salary range
• Relocation
• Notice period
• Coding test
• Portfolio
• GitHub

What You'll Likely Work On

• Build scalable alerting features with robustness and high throughput
• Integrate alerts with external incident‑management tools such as JIRA and incident.io
• Design and implement core backend APIs and services in Go
• Ensure reliability and performance of thousands of concurrent alerts
• Drive end‑to‑end initiatives from problem discovery through rollout

Good Fit If You Have

• Passion for contributing to open‑source projects
• Experience thriving in high‑ownership, fast‑moving remote teams
• Ability to write clear technical docs and explain trade‑offs