Senior Backend Engineer - ClickStack
About The Position
Join us in revolutionizing Observability for Developers! We’re on a mission to redefine how engineers monitor, debug, and scale their production applications using ClickStack. An open-source platform that transforms telemetry data into actionable insights. Imagine a world where logs, metrics, traces, and session replays come together seamlessly to pinpoint root causes faster than ever before. If you've ever been jolted awake at 2 AM, frustrated with Grafana, Datadog, or Elastic for not delivering the answers you need, you’ll resonate with the problem we’re solving. And now, you can help us solve it. We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build a petabyte-scale, high-performance observability platform with a laser focus on crafting an amazing developer experience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, with a preference for building developer tools or infrastructure.
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (experience with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks).
- Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling.
- Experience with Go is a plus — you'll occasionally contribute to Go-based services.
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- A passion for open source and the developer community.
- Experience creating developer tooling and an eye for how to design for developers.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or other analytical/OLTP databases.
- Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for making them 10x better.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, logging pipelines, or metrics infrastructure.
- Experience with SDKs or client library design.
- Exposure to message queues, streaming systems (Kafka, NATS), or event-driven architectures.
Responsibilities
- Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day.
- Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design.
- Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data. You'll build the foundational services that empower engineers to crack production issues like never before.
Benefits
- Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
- Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
- Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
- Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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