Senior Backend Engineer: Scale Telemetry Data Pipelines

TRUEWATCH TECHNOLOGY INC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TRUEWATCH TECHNOLOGY INC PTE. LTD. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build and scale our observability platform's backend. You’ll develop high-performance APIs, streaming pipelines, and scalable data stores handling millions of telemetry events per second.

You’ll collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps to deliver reliable features for mission-critical monitoring and diagnostics, while shaping microservices, CI/CD, and IaC practices in a fast-paced startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience, preferably in SaaS or high-scale data systems.
• Proficiency in Golang (or strong experience in other systems languages with willingness to learn Go).
• Solid experience designing APIs and working with event-driven architectures or streaming data.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with observability tools, telemetry pipelines, or monitoring platforms is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, reliable, and performant backend services for telemetry ingestion, processing, and querying.
• Architect data pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces using modern technologies (e.g., Kafka, ClickHouse, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Develop REST and gRPC APIs to support frontend dashboards and external integrations.
• Contribute to the evolution of our microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code with an eye for performance and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Continuously monitor and improve the reliability, observability, and performance of backend systems.

Skills

Backend development

Golang

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Mentoring

Tools

Kafka

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

Redis

TimescaleDB

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

TRUEWATCH TECHNOLOGY INC PTE. LTD. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build and scale our observability platform's backend. You’ll develop high-performance APIs, streaming pipelines, and scalable data stores handling millions of telemetry events per second.

You’ll collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps to deliver reliable features for mission-critical monitoring and diagnostics, while shaping microservices, CI/CD, and IaC practices in a fast-paced startup.