Senior Software Engineer – Systems Insights

🕒 July 7

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $165k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Cribl

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

☁️ SaaS

SaaS • Cloud

Cribl is a company providing a cloud-based service, allowing users to manage and analyze their data through a web application. The service includes features for user accounts and integration with Google for authentication.

📋 Description

• Help design and build Cribl’s customer-facing metric store for high-volume telemetry data • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with an eye toward performance, observability, and operational resilience • Build scalable backend services and APIs for metric ingestion, storage, metadata management, and query execution • Work on data modeling and storage patterns for time-series data, including high-cardinality dimensions, labels, fingerprints, rollups, and retention strategies • 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 • Analyze and improve query performance, ingestion throughput, storage efficiency, and system reliability • Help define engineering practices for a new product area, including testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational readiness • Coach and empower less senior engineers to own larger technical problems and grow their impact • Work with Management, Product Engineering, and Operations to plan and forecast quarterly goals that balance new features, technical debt, reliability, and customer needs • Champion the full software development lifecycle from requirements and design to testing, deployment, and production support • Share on-call responsibilities as part of a team that embraces service ownership • This position may require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

🎯 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 experience building backend services in complex, large-scale distributed systems • Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable production code, preferably in Node.js and TypeScript • Experience building SaaS platforms, data platforms, observability systems, or high-volume cloud services • Experience working with time-series data, metrics, telemetry pipelines, query systems, or analytical databases • Experience designing APIs and interfaces that are secure, intuitive, and built for long-term evolution • 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 using testing frameworks and tools such as Mocha, Jest, Cypress, or similar tools to automate regression checks • Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar systems • You are a self-starter who can operate with minimal supervision and learn quickly in ambiguous technical areas • You care about details and are dedicated to elegant, high-quality software • You are comfortable making tradeoffs between correctness, performance, cost, operability, and customer experience • No fear! Speak your mind

🏖️ Benefits

• health insurance • dental • vision • short-term disability • life insurance • paid holidays • paid time off • fertility treatment benefit • 401(k) • equity