[Hiring] Staff Product Engineer, Backend (Go, ClickHouse) @Dash0

Role Description

Join Dash0 and help us define the future of observability. We are OpenTelemetry-native, building a delightful, simple, and AI-centric platform that eliminates vendor lock-in and meaningless toil. Shape a product that developers love—all with transparent pricing and cost-control built in.

Are you ready to build the backbone of a product that customers genuinely love? At Dash0, we're not just building another observability tool; we're on a mission to bring observability closer to the developers; make it a part of their everyday work. We believe that getting deep insights should be easy and accessible. Our customers praise our simpler solution that empowers developers, and we're scaling fast.

We’re looking for Product Engineers to join our Backend Platform Team, which lays the foundation for all the great features Dash0 offers and we’ll be building in the future.

The Challenge You'll Tackle:

• Design and build a data pipeline at massive scale.
• Build highly scalable and resilient backend services in Go to ensure our platform can ingest, process, and query massive amounts of telemetry data with unwavering reliability.
• Solve complex data engineering puzzles, such as efficiently storing and querying terabytes of data in ClickHouse and optimizing data pipelines for cost and performance.
• Architect for the future by laying the foundational backend architecture that allows us to innovate quickly.

What Success Looks Like (and How You'll Get There):

• Within 1 week, you'll have shipped your first piece of production code.
• Within 3 months, you'll have shipped significant features and improvements to our core data ingestion or processing pipeline, directly impacting platform performance and reliability.
• Within 6 months, you'll be a go-to expert for key areas of our backend, mentoring other engineers and proposing innovative solutions to our toughest scaling challenges.
• Within 12 months, you'll have played a pivotal role in evolving our backend architecture to support the next generation of Dash0 features.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and scaling distributed backend systems in Go.
• Deep familiarity with high-performance columnar data stores like ClickHouse.
• Loves designing clean, robust RESTful APIs and understands the nuances of distributed systems.
• Knack for building and optimizing data pipelines.
• Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment where you can make a huge impact.
• Passionate about observability and making developers' lives easier.

Benefits

• See your code directly improve the performance and capabilities of our core platform.
• Learn from and contribute to a team of highly talented and passionate engineers.
• We're solving a real problem with a product that's gaining serious traction.
• Work from anywhere in Europe with competitive salary and stock options.
• Competitive salary & meaningful equity participation — you'll own part of what you're building.
• Flexible, remote-first work environment with offices in New York, Amsterdam, and Munich.
• €60/month phone & internet allowance.
• Location-specific benefits.
• Collaborative, fast-moving team culture with a builder mindset.
• Clear path for career growth and development.
• Direct access to founders and leadership.