SigNoz Expands Open-Source Observability Stack as AI Engineering Teams Scale

SigNoz builds an open-source observability platform designed as an open-core alternative to Datadog and New Relic. Founded in 2020, the San Francisco-headquartered company provides a single dashboard combining application metrics, traces, and logs. By natively adopting OpenTelemetry standards and storing telemetry data in ClickHouse, SigNoz allows engineering teams to keep critical data within their own boundaries while eliminating per-host pricing penalties and proprietary agent lock-in.

The company was co-founded by CEO Pranay Prateek, a former Microsoft engineer and graduate of IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad, alongside CTO Ankit Nayan, an IIT Delhi alumnus with prior engineering experience at Citi. The founders previously built TapDiscover together before launching SigNoz through Y Combinator's W21 batch. According to TechCrunch, SigNoz raised $5.4 million in seed funding led by SignalFire, with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, bringing its total reported funding to $6.5 million.

SigNoz uses ReactJS with TypeScript for its frontend, Go for backend services and processors, and ClickHouse for columnar data storage. Telemetry collection relies entirely on OpenTelemetry instrumentation libraries, supporting deployments across Docker and Kubernetes via Helm charts. In recent product updates shared on SigNoz - Open Source Observability Platform, the company introduced fine-grained role-based access control, unlimited span trace detail views, revamped log analytics, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support used by enterprise teams for root-cause analysis. Benchmark testing published by news.lavx.hu evaluated SigNoz v0.145.0 alongside other log ingestion engines on Kubernetes nodes, detailing how OpenTelemetry collectors process and buffer structured telemetry records ahead of ClickHouse storage.

To support platform adoption among high-growth engineering teams, SigNoz is actively recruiting technical talent to expand its core developer tools and customer deployment operations. The company is hiring an ex-Founders engineer based in India or remote in the US to build core developer infrastructure, draw on DevOps and platform engineering experience, and collaborate directly with customers. For hands-on technical architecture, SigNoz is recruiting a Forward Deployed Engineer (Remote) (India time zones) to architect observability setups, implement application instrumentation, and author technical documentation. Candidates interested in general engineering and product contributions can also apply via Don't See Your Role? Apply Here, which targets developers interested in observability, platform tooling, and developer growth.

In addition to technical roles, SigNoz is expanding its go-to-market engine. The company is hiring a US-based Growth Marketing (Remote)(US based) professional offering $150,000 to $200,000 annually to author developer blogs, produce videos, present at industry conferences, host community meetups, and guide user onboarding. SigNoz is also recruiting for a Growth Marketing (India/EU) position to drive demand generation by creating whitepapers, hosting webinars, and leading account-based marketing campaigns alongside the founding team.

All current open positions at SigNoz support remote working arrangements across India and the United States.

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