Exceptional Engineer
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Startup
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No BS summary
Seeking exceptional engineers who operate at the top tier, combine speed with craft, and have experience scaling systems during hyper-growth. Must take ownership and have strong technical judgment. This role is for individuals who ship fast and well, and have proven their ability in high-stakes, fast-paced environments.
Optional skills
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: EXCEPTIONAL ENGINEERS
We are hiring a very small number of exceptional engineers. We are not trying to fill seats — we are trying to raise the average. If you join, the bar for everyone after you goes up.
This role is for people who ship fast and ship well, and who have already proven they can do that when the stakes and the pace were highest. If that's you, the rest of this will read as an invitation rather than a wishlist.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
We're hiring for a specific profile, not a checklist of years. The signals that matter to us:
- You operate in the top tier of engineers you've worked with. You're usually the person others go to when something is hard, ambiguous, or on fire. Your past managers and peers would describe you as one of the strongest engineers they've worked alongside.
- You combine speed with craft. You ship quickly without leaving a mess behind you. You have strong instincts for what deserves polish and what just needs to work, and you rarely confuse the two.
- You've done this during hyper-growth. At a previous company, you were a core engineer while it scaled fast — rapid user growth, scaling systems, scaling teams, or all three. You've felt what breaks at scale and you've fixed it in production, not in theory.
- You take real ownership. You don't wait to be assigned problems; you find them, scope them, and close them. When something is broken, you treat it as yours regardless of whose code it is.
- You have strong technical taste. Good judgment about abstractions, data models, and tradeoffs — and the humility to change your mind when the evidence does.
SIGNALS THAT YOU MIGHT BE A GREAT FIT
You don't need all of these, but several should resonate:
- You've owned a system that went from "works for a few thousand users" to "works for millions" — and you remember exactly where it hurt.
- You've shipped something significant in a window that surprised people, and it held up.
- You have side projects, open-source contributions, or a track record that shows you build because you can't help it.
- You've been an early or key engineer somewhere that grew up fast, and people there would fight to work with you again.
NICE-TO-HAVES
- Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, etc.
- Has been, or wants to be, a founder in B2B/devtools
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
What you'll do
- Ship fast and ship well
- Operate in the top tier of engineers
- Be the person others go to when something is hard, ambiguous, or on fire
- Combine speed with craft
- Ship quickly without leaving a mess behind
- Have strong instincts for what deserves polish and what just needs to work
- Be a core engineer while scaling fast (rapid user growth, scaling systems, scaling teams)
- Fix what breaks at scale in production
- Take real ownership
- Find, scope, and close problems without being assigned
- Treat broken things as yours regardless of whose code it is
- Have strong technical taste
- Have good judgment about abstractions, data models, and tradeoffs
- Own a system that went from 'works for a few thousand users' to 'works for millions'
- Ship something significant in a surprise window that held up
- Build because you can't help it (demonstrated through side projects, open-source contributions, or track record)
- Be an early or key engineer somewhere that grew up fast
- Directly shape how teams adopt SigNoz
What they require
- You operate in the top tier of engineers you've worked with.
- Your past managers and peers would describe you as one of the strongest engineers they've worked alongside.
- You combine speed with craft.
- You ship quickly without leaving a mess behind you.
- You have strong instincts for what deserves polish and what just needs to work, and you rarely confuse the two.
- You've done this during hyper-growth.
- At a previous company, you were a core engineer while it scaled fast — rapid user growth, scaling systems, scaling teams, or all three.
- You've felt what breaks at scale and you've fixed it in production, not in theory.
- You take real ownership.
- You don't wait to be assigned problems; you find them, scope them, and close them.
- When something is broken, you treat it as yours regardless of whose code it is.
- You have strong technical taste.
- Good judgment about abstractions, data models, and tradeoffs — and the humility to change your mind when the evidence does.
- You've owned a system that went from "works for a few thousand users" to "works for millions" — and you remember exactly where it hurt.
- You've shipped something significant in a window that surprised people, and it held up.
- You have side projects, open-source contributions, or a track record that shows you build because you can't help it.
- You've been an early or key engineer somewhere that grew up fast, and people there would fight to work with you again.
Benefits
- 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
SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that brings metrics, logs, and traces into one product.