Senior Backend Engineer - ClickStack

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own and build key backend services and infrastructure powering the observability platform: reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs
• ▹Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, incorporating their feedback into backend architecture and API design
• ▹Design and implement scalable backend systems for ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data
• ▹Build the foundational services that empower engineers to crack production issues like never before

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, preferably building developer tools or infrastructure
• ▹Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks)
• ▹Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling
• ▹Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• ▹A passion for open source and the developer community
• ▹Experience creating developer tooling with an eye for how to design for developers

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with Go (occasional contributions to Go-based services)
• ▹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 SDK or client library design
• ▹Exposure to message queues, streaming systems (Kafka, NATS), or event-driven architectures

Soft skills

About the company

ClickStack is an open-source observability platform that brings logs, metrics, traces, and session replays together seamlessly, helping developers pinpoint root causes and scale their production applications faster.