Senior Backend Engineer - ClickStack

What You'll Do

• 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.

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.
• 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 Go.
• 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.

Compensation & Benefits

• Typical starting salary: $130,000–$208,000 USD (US); $141,000–$230,000 USD (US Premium Markets).
• Flexible work environment - globally distributed and remote-friendly.
• Employer contributions towards healthcare.
• Equity in the company - stock options for every new team member.
• Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings – opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.