Sr Software Engineer, Search Federation

Join the company that’s building the telemetry infrastructure for the AI era. 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.

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.

Why You'll Love This Role

Are you someone who is excited about enabling customers to find, analyze, and visualize their operational data, no matter where it lives, regardless of format or storage medium? Do you enjoy query languages, optimization of performance and working on cutting edge technologies?

Cribl Search flips observability on its head by distributing queries to where your data already lives and aggregating the results – no more expensive data replication, centralized aggregation, megaIOPS+petabyte storage, or kilocore+terabyte hosts required to see what’s going on in your deployed environments. Want to find specific events, trace an execution, identify a threat, or graph metric trends from (ex.) data stored in EBS volumes, Cribl Edge nodes, S3 buckets, Azure blob stores, containers, RDBMSes, data lakes, or even a custom datastore? How about being able to do that from a single pane, regardless of heterogeneous storage / location / hosting / on-disk format? That’s what Cribl Search enables, and it is a game-changer for helping Cribl become the data engine for IT and security.

Cribl is looking for a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to collaborate on a remote-first, diverse, inclusive, cross-functional team of software developers focused on expanding the integration of Cribl Search with 3rd-party providers. In this role, you will have the opportunity to continue to shape the future of Cribl Search, by expanding development on a novel system that implements distributed and federated search across in-place data. This is an ideal role for anyone who is passionate about building high-performance applications in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

On top of it all, you will have fun! Cribl strives to be a great place to work for everyone.

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will...

• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with an eye towards observability and resilience
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders within the vision and scope of your product area, helping define project goals and acceptance criteria
• Help define and refine the software development practices that make our team effective – everybody’s feedback helps shape our process
• Work on a mix of new features, bug fixes, and tech debt
• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements and design to testing, deployment, and production support/monitoring
• Share on-call responsibilities and take part in team that embraces a model of service ownership
• This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

If You've Got It - We Want It

• You are a self-starter, require minimal supervision, and have a track record of learning quickly
• Ability to problem-solve from first principles and maintain focus on overarching objectives
• Experience building search, query and/or analytic systems working with structured and unstructured data
• Experience with data structures and algorithms
• Familiar with AWS, Lambda, and cloud Infrastructure
• Experience with agile processes and rapid iterative development
• Experience in developing distributed systems and working with data at scale
• Experience working in a dynamic and highly innovative environment
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; able to explain complex technical topics to both internal and external stakeholders with ease and in remote/distributed environments
• Experience with frontend development is a bonus, as 5-10% of our work needs frontend contributions too
• No fear! Speak your mind
• Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes
• A love for goats
• Experience working remotely
• Experience with Typescript/JavaScript, NodeJS, and SQL

Salary Range ($175,000 - $210,000)

The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location. The salary offered within the range described will be based on the individual candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to a competitive salary, Cribl also offers a generous benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and paid time off, a fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), equity, and eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus.

Bring Your Whole Self

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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Interested in joining the Cribl herd? Learn more about the smartest, funniest, most passionate goats you’ll ever meet at cribl.io/about-us.