Staff Software Engineer, Search (Backend)

Cribl does differently.

What does that mean? It means we are a serious company that doesn’t take itself too seriously; and we’re looking for people who love to get stuff done, and laugh a bit along the way. We’re growing rapidly - looking for collaborative, curious, and motivated team members who are passionate about putting customers first. As a remote-first company we believe in empowering our employees to do their best work, wherever they are.

As the data engine for IT and Security many of the biggest names in the most demanding industries trust Cribl to solve their most pressing data needs. Ready to do the best work of your career? Join the herd and unlock your opportunity.

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 we think it’s a game-changer for helping Cribl become the data engine for IT and security.

Cribl is looking for a back-end focused Senior Engineer to collaborate on a remote-first, diverse, inclusive, cross-functional team of software developers focused on the Cribl Search’s Performance and Executor Infrastructure. In this role, you will have the opportunity to continue to shape the future of Cribl Search by architecting a novel distributed and federated search system for in-place data. This is an ideal role for anyone who is passionate about building high-performance web 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 ...

• Help define and refine the software development practices that make our team effective
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with an eye towards observability and resilience
• Work with cross-functional team members and stakeholders to decide on the vision and scope of your product area
• Work with Management, Product Engineering, and Operations to plan and forecast quarterly goals that include a mix of tech debt, bug fixes, and new features
• Champion the entire software development lifecycle from requirements and design to testing, deployment, and production support/monitoring
• This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

If You Got It, We Want It

• You are a self starter, minimal supervision and have a track record of learning quickly.
• Expertise in performance tuning of web applications with a deep understanding of profiling, network optimization, code optimization and environment optimization.
• Familiar with AWS, lambda and Cloud Infrastructure.
• 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
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, linux, and distributed systems
• Experience with agile processes and rapid iterative development
• Experience in developing distributed systems 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
• No fear! Speak your mind
• Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes
• A love for goats
• Experience working remotely
• Experience with Typescript/JavaScript and NodeJS

Salary Range ($200,000 - $230,000)

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.