Head of Finance

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:

• 32,000+ GitHub stars
• 1000+ customers
• 8,000+ members in our Slack community

ROLE: HEAD OF FINANCE

We're looking for a Head of Finance to build and own the finance function end-to-end.

Today we're at meaningful revenue scale with a finance setup that got us here but won't get us to the next stage. Our books are accurate but slow. We can tell you our blended gross margin — we can't yet tell you which customer cohorts, plans, and workloads are actually profitable. That matters more for us than for most SaaS companies: we run petabyte-scale infrastructure, so compute and storage cost per customer is our margin story.

You'll report to the CEO, own everything from monthly close to the due-diligence data room, and partner closely with engineering on the cost side of the business.

This is a build role. Real revenue, incomplete infrastructure, and you'll be constructing systems while the numbers keep moving.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Controllership: monthly close in under 15 days, revenue recognition for usage-based and contracted plans, statutory audit, AR and collections
• Multi-entity finance across our US and India entities — intercompany, transfer pricing, consolidation
• Compliance: GST, TDS, ROC/MCA, FEMA and RBI filings, ESOP administration and perquisite tax
• Gross margin engineering: partnering with the platform team on infra spend, cloud commitments, and cost per ingested GB
• FP&A: annual operating plan, rolling forecast built from operating drivers, MIS that functional leaders act on
• Cash and treasury: 13-week cash flow, runway, USD/INR exposure, banking and surplus deployment
• Getting us off spreadsheets — ERP, billing ops, expense management, procurement approvals, internal controls
• Building a small, high-leverage finance team as the load grows

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL

• CA with 8–12 years post-qualification
• You have personally owned a monthly close and a statutory audit — owned, not supervised
• You've built a financial model from operating drivers, been wrong in public about it, and can talk about what you learned
• Working fluency in Indian startup compliance: GST, TDS, ROC, FEMA, ESOP taxation
• Comfortable with messy, incomplete data and willing to ship a defensible answer before the data is perfect
• Strong communication — can explain a margin problem to an engineer and a burn scenario to a board member in the same week
• You'll argue with the CEO using data, and keep the relationship intact

NICE-TO-HAVES

• Big 4 audit or TAS early, followed by real operating years in a funded startup
• Currently #2 in finance at a Series B/C company and ready to run the function
• Multi-entity experience, especially US–India structures
• SaaS or usage-based billing revenue recognition
• You've been through a fundraise from the inside, whatever your role in it

A FEW THINGS WE'LL BE STRAIGHT ABOUT

• Roughly 40% of year one is unglamorous: GST reconciliations, audit queries, chasing collections. If you only want strategic finance, you'll be restless here for a while.
• You'll find things that are wrong. We'd rather you find them than an auditor or an investor.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING AT SIGNOZ

• Build a finance function from scratch at a company with real revenue and real momentum
• Huge scope and ownership — you'll own the number, the narrative, and the systems behind both
• Work on a globally used open-source project that engineers actually love
• Remote-first, async-friendly culture
• A finance problem that's genuinely interesting: open-source distribution, usage-based economics, and infrastructure at petabyte scale