Staff Software Engineer, Search - Backend

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 Inc 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

• Share on-call and take part in team that embraces a model of service ownership

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 ($200000 - $230000)

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.