Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Description

🏢 Company: SigNoz (Signal vs Noise)
📍 Location: India (Remote, Work From Anywhere)
💼 Job Type: Full-Time
📅 Experience: 2–6 Years
🎓 Education: Bachelor’s / Master’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
💰 Expected Salary: ₹10,50,000 – ₹37,70,000 lakhs per year
🏷️ Job Category: Information Technology, Engineering, Remote Jobs, Customer Success, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Observability, OpenTelemetry
🌐 Website: Website
📞 Contact: Contact us

🏬 About the Company:
SigNoz is a Y Combinator-backed open-source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry — providing metrics, logs, and traces in a single unified application, serving as a powerful open-source alternative to Datadog and New Relic for companies that want full control of their data.
SigNoz has raised $7M over 5 rounds, with its latest Seed VC-II round of $5.4M led by SignalFire, with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and angels including GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner.
With 25K+ GitHub stars, a 7,000-member Slack community, and users in 30+ countries — SigNoz is one of the most loved dev infra products in the world! ⭐🚀

🎯 About the Role:
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at SigNoz, you’ll be at the intersection of engineering and customer success — working directly with customer engineering teams to design OpenTelemetry instrumentation strategies, customize dashboards, and ensure successful deployments at scale.
AI Forward Deployed Engineers in India earn an average gross salary of ₹27,80,690 per year plus an average bonus of ₹1,02,607 — making this one of the most rewarding customer-facing engineering roles in the Indian tech ecosystem! 🔭🌟

🗂️ Key Responsibilities:

• 🔧 Work directly with customer engineering teams to design their OpenTelemetry instrumentation strategy, customize dashboards, and optimize SigNoz deployments for specific use cases
• 📝 Create custom integration guides, troubleshooting docs, and best practices documentation that engineering teams actually want to read and follow
• 💻 Contribute directly to customer codebases — help debug instrumentation issues, implement solutions hands-on, and ensure successful deployments rather than just providing guidance
• 🔍 Identify patterns in customer deployments and collaborate with product teams to build better defaults, templates, and tooling that benefit the entire SigNoz community

✅ Requirements:

🔑 Must-Haves:

• 🎓 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 💼 2–6 years of experience in technical roles — DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Solutions Engineering backgrounds strongly preferred
• ✍️ Excellent technical writing skills — ability to create clear, actionable documentation that engineers actually use
• 🤝 Strong people skills — genuinely enjoy working directly with customers and engineering teams

🛠️ Technical Skills:

• ☁️ Strong 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
• 🔭 Systems thinking — ability to understand complex distributed architectures and design monitoring strategies that scale
• 📊 Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, APM, distributed tracing, logs, and metrics is a strong advantage

🌟 Why Join SigNoz?
✅ Highly competitive salary ranging from ₹10.5 LPA to ₹37.7 LPA
— with early-stage equity in one of the world’s most loved open-source dev infra products, backed by Y Combinator and SignalFire 💰
✅ Work on a product built on OpenTelemetry — the fastest-growing observability standard in the industry — serving users across 30+ countries in a completely remote, no-office setup 🎯
✅ SigNoz competes directly with New Relic, Datadog, Chronosphere, and Grafana Labs
— join early, make a massive impact, and help build the open-source future of observability for developers worldwide! 🚀