Forward Deployed Engineer

About SigNoz

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that helps developers monitor, trace, and debug their applications fast. Today we serve users in 30+ countries, have 25k+ GitHub stars, a 7,000-member Slack community, and 180+ OSS contributors—all while operating as a fully remote, globally distributed team. We’re YC-backed and supported by leading Bay-Area VCs.

Why us?

- Opportunity to work in a global dev infra product

- Backed by YC and some of the prominent VCs in the Bay Area

- We are completely remote. No offices.

We're looking for someone who is:

- Technical enough to design observability solutions - you'll work directly with customer engineering teams to design their OpenTelemetry instrumentation strategy, customize dashboards, and optimize for their specific use cases.

- Excellent at technical documentation - you'll create custom integration guides, troubleshooting docs, and best practices documentation that engineering teams actually want to follow.

- Capable of hands-on implementation - you'll directly contribute to customer codebases, help debug instrumentation issues, and ensure successful deployments rather than just providing guidance.

- Product-minded - you'll identify patterns in customer deployments and work with our product teams to build better defaults, templates, and tooling.

Who would be a good fit

- 2-6 years experience in technical roles - DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Solutions Engineering backgrounds

- DevOps/Platform engineering background - Containerization, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

- Strong programming skills - comfortable contributing to customer codebases in multiple languages (Go, Python, Node.js, Java)

- Excellent technical writing - can create clear, actionable documentation that engineers actually use

- Systems thinking - can understand complex distributed architectures and design monitoring strategies that scale

Who may not be a good fit

- People who prefer working in isolation rather than directly with customers

- People who struggle with technical writing or documentation

- Candidates who avoid hands-on coding or technical implementation