Lead Backend Engineer

Overview

Company name: NebulaIQ.AI | Website | LinkedIn

Role: Lead Backend Engineer

• Experience: 4-6 years
• Salary Range: Rs. 30-50 lakhs per annum
• Location: Bangalore
• Type: Full-time

About the Role
We’re assembling a founding engineering team in Bangalore, and we’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to help shape both the product and engineering culture from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to build alongside Shailedra, in a deeply technical and high-ownership environment.

If you thrive on building distributed systems, love diving into low-level code, and want to influence architecture and vision at day zero—this one’s for you.

What You’ll Do

1. Architect and build distributed systems, observability tooling, and high-throughput data pipelines
2. Write production-grade backend code in Go and/or Rust
3. Own infrastructure, scalability, and performance across services
4. Work directly with Shailedra to define the product roadmap, technical direction, and engineering principles
5. Recruit, mentor, and lead future team members as the company scales
6. Move fast, stay hands-on, and take full ownership of what you build

What We’re Looking For

1. 6+ years of backend engineering experience (startup experience a plus)
2. Strong command of Go, Rust, or similar system-level languages
3. Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems or observability tools
4. Deep understanding of infrastructure, networking, and system performance
5. A builder’s mindset—scrappy, fast, and ready to iterate
6. Passion for clean code, technical leadership, and high standards

About Us:
NebulaIQ redefines observability, making it automated, non-intrusive, and cost-efficient. We've innovated observability for applications and infrastructure from the ground up.

Key Features:

1.  Fully Automated: Zero-configuration anomaly detection with accurate, detailed root cause analysis. Enhanced by a fine-tuned LLM for solution suggestions.
2. Non-Intrusive: No code changes or library imports are needed, thanks to our eBPF-based Instrumentation agent. No application restarts are required.
3. Comprehensive Coverage: Captures traces and metrics from application to network across all systems, including databases, caches, and gateways, ensuring no blind spots.
4. Fine-grained traces: Superior to logs and metrics, offering causal relations and detailed insights for in-depth analysis and debugging.
5. Automated Dashboards: Fully automated dashboards provide everything from a bird’s eye view to detailed reports, allowing for intuitive data exploration.
6. Scale & Performance: Built with Rust and C for petabyte-scale data management without sacrificing performance.
7. Cost-Efficient: Our solution costs 1/5th of other popular options, providing observability at a fraction of the cost.
8. Open Core Model: Free forever for small companies and startups.
9. Deployed in Your Cloud: Ensures complete data privacy.
10. Minimal Effort Deployment: Our team works closely with yours for a smooth deployment, requiring minimal assistance.

NebulaIQ delivers observability simplified, ensuring your infrastructure and applications are effortlessly monitored and managed.