Staff Backend Engineer - Core
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- Experience
- 5+ years required
- Where you can live
- India only
- Skills and tools
- slack, jira, golang, kubernetes, async
- Job type
- Full-time
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Job details
- Where you can work
- India
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Advertised pay
- Not stated by the employer
- Experience
- 5+ years required
- Employer publication date
- 21 June 2026
- First recorded by Psst
- 12 October 2026
- Last checked at the source
- 10 November 2026
About the job
ABOUT the company
The company 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: STAFF BACKEND ENGINEER – ALERTS
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.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
You will be working with the high-caliber team to build the future of alerts at the company. Here are the list of features that exist today [link for members]
- Build alert features with robustness and scalability in mind
- Build integration with JIRA, incident.io, etc
- Design and implement APIs, services, and core backend components in Go
- Reliability of alerts
WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL
- 5–10 years of experience in golang
- Strong understanding of concurrency, locks, channels, and performance in Go
- Experience building distributed systems while writing clean and scalable code
- 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 tech docs and explain trade-offs
NICE-TO-HAVES
- Past experience in core teams of series B+ startups.
- Experience in observability (monitoring / logging / tracing)
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, etc.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT the company
- Work on a globally used open-source project that engineers actually love
- Huge scope and ownership – your work directly shapes how teams adopt the company
- 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
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