Backend Engineer

Hi there! We’re on a mission to redefine how engineers monitor, debug, and scale their production applications with HyperDX, an open-source platform that transforms telemetry data into actionable insights. Imagine a world where logs, metrics, traces, and session replays come together seamlessly to pinpoint root causes faster than ever before.

If you've ever been jolted awake at 2am, frustrated with Grafana, Datadog, or Elastic for not delivering the answers you need, you’ll resonate with the problem we’re solving. And now, you can help us solve it.

Why Join HyperDX?

We’re at an incredibly exciting stage:

Be one of the first engineers to join!
7k GitHub stars and counting, with an active and growing community.
Deployed by enterprise giants like ARM and trusted by thousands of teams on HyperDX Cloud.
A vision backed by passionate founders and years of runway, ready to scale big.
Freedom to create, do, build, ship, and grow

The Opportunity

We’re hiring a Mid-Senior Level Engineer to help us build a petabyte-scale, high-performance observability platform with a laser focus on crafting an amazing developer experience (the DX in HyperDX).

What You’ll Do:

Shape the product: Own and build key features, focusing on backend systems that streamline debugging and monitoring for developers.
Engage with the community: Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our roadmap.
Tackle technical challenges: Supercharging HyperDX to blaze through petabytes of observability data with lightning-fast efficiency! You'll unlock groundbreaking analysis tools that empower engineers to crack production issues like never before—all while scaling our cloud-hosted platform to deliver seamless, next-level performance for our growing customer base.

Who You Are:

A backend developer with strong experience in multiple languages.
A creative problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Driven to ship features that make a tangible impact for customers.
Eager to learn and push boundaries, embracing new technologies and approaches.
Love what you do and are passionate about software
Move fast and learn from mistakes
Love the freedom to create with minimal interruptions

Your Toolbox:

4+ years of software engineering experience (bonus if you’ve built developer tools).
Strong TypeScript skills (Next.js frontend and Express backend).
Strong experience in multiple programming languages (node, python, golang, etc…)
Proficiency in SQL for query generation on ClickHouse.
Comfortable with Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
Passionate about open source and the developer community.

Extra Credit:

Expertise in distributed systems and event ingestion pipelines.
Experience working with columnar databases.
Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for making them 10x better.
Familiarity with additional languages like Rust or PHP for building integrations.

About Us

We’re Michael and Warren, founders with a deep love for building powerful, intuitive developer tools on scalable infrastructure. We’ve hired a head of engineering and are ready to scale out our engineering team. We may still be a small team, but the demand for HyperDX is growing rapidly—and so is the opportunity to make a massive impact.

Why This Role Is Unique

You’ll have the autonomy to take big ideas and run with them, the support of a tight-knit team, and the chance to shape the future of observability tools alongside an amazing open-source community.

If you’re ready to build, learn, and redefine what’s possible for developers, we’d love to hear from you. Drop us a note and tell us about the most memorable incident you’ve ever debugged!