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
Cribl Stream unlocks the value of all machine data in ways that were previously not possible by providing users a new level of observability, intelligence and control over their real-time data. We are looking for talented engineers to help build scalable, reliable, and intuitive features that empower our customers to operate Cribl Stream with confidence and agility.
As a Staff Engineer working on the Stream Control Plane, you will be a technical expert working alongside skilled engineers as part of a cross functional team that delivers highly reliable and scalable software to drive customer value and satisfaction. This role is equal parts research and development. If you enjoy the challenges of building scalable, robust, and high performing distributed systems that process large data sets in real time, this position may be right for you.
This is a fully remote role and Cribl is a remote first company. Our culture embraces the diversity of team members spread all across the globe.
As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…
- Develop software that powers the reliable and scalable operation of Cribl Stream such as deployment, configuration, and orchestration of distributed nodes at high scale
- Work with a cross functional team of engineers, product managers, and designers to translate feature requirements into technical designs and implementable code
- Develop, test, and maintain robust code that effectively delivers customer value
- Work closely with peers to provide feedback on design and code reviews
- Take the lead on feature development while balancing the responsibilities of high quality software development and delivering value quickly to our customers
- Develop automated tests and comprehensive test plans to ensure high quality code and product features that work as expected
- Champion teamwork, engineering best practices, and a customer focused mindset
- Provide technical and thought leadership to the products and tools that we deliver
- Introduce performance and efficiency improvements across our products and processes
- Mentor and coach junior engineers on the team
- Engage our users by contributing to internal and external blogs that relate to the products you help develop
- Help maintain and support our SaaS products including periodic participation in our 24x7 on-call rotations
- This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
If You’ve Got It - We Want It
- Led multiple projects end-to-end (design to production) with hands-on coding contributions
- Hands-on experience developing products/services that run on large scale distributed systems in Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Has built and used production-ready, highly scalable, highly reliable APIs (e.g. REST, RPC)
- Experience with production on-call and incident response
- Experience using Javascript test frameworks (e.g. Codecept, Mocha, Cypress, Jest) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins)
- Knowledge/experience in data streaming & transformation, high volume telemetry, logs, metrics and observability
- Expert knowledge of Node, TypeScript, JavaScript, other languages will be consider as well.
- Experience working in startup/fast-paced work environments, Agile software development, remote/hybrid work
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.
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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.
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