Senior Software Engineer, Search Performance

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 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.

• 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

• 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