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Company brief · updated 2026-10-19

SigNoz

signoz.io · B2B · SigNoz Cloud is a one-stop observability tool built on top of OpenTelemetry. Get APM, logs, traces, metrics, exceptions, AI observability & alerts in a single tool.

15open roles
3new in 30 days
0closed in 30 days
8remote-eligible
steadyhiring velocity

What they're building

AI layer for agent-native observability moderate signal

Today: Use the SigNoz MCP server to bring telemetry into coding agents, or use Noz, your AI teammate inside SigNoz Cloud

Roles: Sr Backend Engineer - AI · Developer Relation Engineer (US, SF Bay Area)

Requirements mention: Noz · MCP server · AI Agents · LLM · agents · AI infrastructure

Inference: the Sr Backend Engineer - AI posting says the Nerve team builds Noz, the MCP server, AI Agents and LLM observability, 'moving toward agent-native observability'. That matches the site's 'Agent-native observability' heading. The postings do not say which AI features come next.

Frontend performance for large telemetry views moderate signal

Today: Move from a latency spike to the related logs, traces, metrics, and spans without stitching together separate tools

Roles: Senior Software Engineer - Frontend · Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Requirements mention: React rendering behaviour · performance bottlenecks · virtualization · progressive loading · smart caching · selective rendering

Inference: both roles ask for rendering and loading techniques, which points to ongoing work on making the dashboards, traces and logs views handle large data volumes. The Staff role has been open since 2025-11-29, about ten and a half months as of the 2026-10 data.

Alerting reliability at scale and incident-tool integrations moderate signal

Today: Alerts. Threshold, anomaly, and Apdex alerts on any telemetry signal.

Roles: Staff Backend Engineer - Core · Sr Product Manager - IC

Requirements mention: alerting module · JIRA · incident.io · concurrency · distributed systems · Alerting

Inference: the Staff Backend Engineer - Core posting names its own scope: alerting reliability 'when there are 1000s of alerts running' and integrations with JIRA and incident.io. Those integrations are the stated next step.

Go-to-market funnel and a first customer success function moderate signal

Today: Simple usage-based pricing

Roles: Senior AI GTM Engineer · Demand Gen Lead · Founding Customer Success Lead · Technical Account Executive

Requirements mention: CAC payback · pipeline by channel · CRM APIs · health scores · renewals · negotiate an annual commitment · running discovery

Inference: the GTM Engineer posting describes one funnel from signup to SQL to closed-won in BigQuery. The 'Founding' Customer Success Lead is asked to negotiate annual commitments and run renewals. Together these suggest SigNoz is setting up its first formal retention and annual-contract motion alongside usage-based pricing.

Finance build-out across entities moderate signal

Today: SigNoz Cloud with usage-based pricing, plus Self-Hosted SigNoz

Roles: Head of Finance

Requirements mention: revenue recognition · intercompany · transfer pricing · consolidation · FEMA · RBI filings · ESOP administration

Inference: the intercompany, transfer pricing, consolidation and FEMA/RBI requirements indicate SigNoz operates more than one legal entity, with cross-border flows involving India. The postings do not say where the other entity is.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Engineering6
Growth3
Product3
Sales1
Customer Success1
Finance1

Of 15 open roles, Engineering has 6, Growth 3, Product 3, and Sales, Customer Success and Finance 1 each, so 9 roles are outside Engineering; 13 are based in India.

Who they need

Seniority: senior 7, mid 4, staff 2, vp 1, unknown 1

Skills named most: OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, TypeScript, Kafka, HubSpot, React, BigQuery, Grafana, Prometheus, DataDog, distributed systems

Locations: India (13), United States (1), India or EU (1). 8 roles are marked remote. The Developer Relation Engineer role is posted as United States, SF Bay Area, and is the newest opening (2026-10-15).

How to use this

If you're applying: Engineering is the largest group at 6 of 15 roles, but 9 roles are in Growth, Product, Sales, Customer Success and Finance, and 13 of 15 are in India. Check each posting's listed languages and systems against your own. OpenTelemetry appears in 11 postings, including non-engineering ones.

If you're selling or recruiting: Customer Success and Finance leadership are open hires (Founding Customer Success Lead, Head of Finance), so there is no one in those seats to call yet; approach the founders and the Growth team instead. The go-to-market roles name HubSpot and BigQuery as their stack. Most roles are India-based; the newest opening is a US Developer Relation Engineer.

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Open roles (15)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Developer Relation Engineer (US, SF Bay Area)GrowthUnited States2026-10-15
Technical Account ExecutiveSalesIndia or EU (remote)2026-10-13
Founding Customer Success LeadCustomer SuccessIndia2026-10-01
Head of FinanceFinanceIndia2026-08-24
Senior Software Engineer - FrontendEngineeringIndia (remote)2026-07-21
Demand Gen LeadGrowthIndia2026-07-20
AI GTM EngineerGrowthIndia (remote)2026-07-20
Sr Product DesignerProductIndia (remote)2026-06-30
Sr Backend Engineer - AIEngineeringIndia (remote)2026-06-30
Exceptional EngineerEngineeringIndia (remote)2026-06-21
Sr Product Manager - ICProductIndia (remote)2026-06-21
Staff Backend Engineer - CoreEngineeringIndia (remote)2026-06-21
Technical Support EngineerEngineeringIndia2026-02-23
Staff Software Engineer - FrontendEngineeringIndia2025-11-29
ex-FoundersProductIndia2025-11-20