Cribl
Sr. Software Engineer - Systems Insights
Remote - United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$165k-$200kDetected 15 days ago
TypeScriptNode.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsGitAWSCloud PlatformsCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsCircleCILinuxPrometheusKafkaCypressJestMochaLeadership
About the role
- We're one of the fastest‑growing private companies and a leading player in a massive, fast‑moving market.
- With a global workforce, we're remote‑first and grounded in a simple idea: software is a people business.
- Cribl is the place where curious, collaborative people can do their best work, grow fast, and bring their full selves to the herd.
Responsibilities
- Join the company that's building the telemetry infrastructure for the AI era.
- Diversity drives innovation, enables better decisions to support our customers, and inspires change for the better.
- We're building a culture where differences are valued and welcomed, and we work together to bring out the best in each other.
- Help design and build Cribl's customer-facing metric store for high-volume telemetry data
- Build scalable backend services and APIs for metric ingestion, storage, metadata management, and query execution
- Partner with Product and Design to turn complex observability workflows into intuitive customer-facing capabilities
- Collaborate with engineers across Cribl to integrate metric storage and query capabilities into broader product experiences
- Coach and empower less senior engineers to own larger technical problems and grow their impact
- Champion the full software development lifecycle from requirements and design to testing, deployment, and production support
- Strong experience building backend services in complex, large-scale distributed systems
Requirements
- Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. government security requirements for access to FedRAMP-authorized systems, which may include U.S. citizenship
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, Linux, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS or another major cloud provider
- Experience with storage systems, query performance, indexing strategies, partitioning, caching, or data lifecycle management
- Experience with observability concepts such as metrics, labels, dimensions, cardinality, histograms, counters, gauges, and query languages such as PromQL is a strong plus
- Experience with systems such as ClickHouse, Prometheus, Mimir, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Kinesis, S3, or similar technologies is a strong plus
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar systems
Compensation
- $165,000 - $200,000 USD
Company info
- At Cribl, we partner with IT and Security teams at many of the world's biggest enterprises, including half of the Fortune 100, to bridge the gap between AI ambition and infrastructure reality.
- As the AI Platform for Telemetry, we give customers the choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze telemetry for both humans and agents, so they can build what's next.
- Share on-call responsibilities as part of a team that embraces service ownership
Visa & Work Authorization
- citizenship
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