Staff Software Engineer, Cribl
Alerting and Observability
$200-245k
+ Equity and eligibility for a discretionary company wide bonus
Data engine for IT and security
Open for applications
Data engine for IT and security
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-245k
+ Equity and eligibility for a discretionary company wide bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower enterprises to unlock the value of all their data.
Role
Who you are
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js with a proven track record of building production-grade services
- Experience with query languages for metrics and monitoring (PromQL, SQL, or similar) and ability to write complex queries for data analysis
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining alerting systems, including rule evaluation engines and notification pipelines
- Experience with time-series databases and columnar storage systems (ClickHouse experience is a plus)
- Frontend development skills with React and modern JavaScript frameworks for building data visualization and management interfaces
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience with observability concepts including metrics, logs, traces, and their correlation
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and a track record of learning quickly
- Dedication to writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Prometheus ecosystem, including AlertManager
- Background in building rule engines or expression evaluation systems
- Experience with notification systems and integrations (PagerDuty, Slack, webhooks, etc.)
- Familiarity with observability tools like Grafana, ELK stack, or similar solutions
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as BitBucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc
- Understanding of alert fatigue mitigation strategies and intelligent alerting patterns
- Experience with high cardinality data and performance optimization
- Willingness to speak your mind and share ideas
- Appreciation for humor and a love for goats
- Comfort working remotely
What the job involves
- In this role, you will work closely with Product, Operations, and other business functions while collaborating with your direct team to own and deliver end-to-end features and functionality for our alerting and observability platform
- As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in alerting systems and metrics analysis, you will bring your experience and expertise to help your team build intelligent, responsive alerting capabilities
- You will have the opportunity to tackle complex observability challenges, owning the design, implementation, and rollout of alerting infrastructure with the support of your team
- Design and build sophisticated alerting systems that enable proactive monitoring and incident detection across distributed systems
- Develop query-based alert rules and expressions using PromQL, SQL, and other query languages to surface meaningful insights
- Create intelligent alert routing, deduplication, and correlation mechanisms to reduce noise and improve signal quality
- Build scalable backend services for alert evaluation, notification delivery, and alert management workflows
- Optimize time-series data storage and query performance for high-volume metrics and telemetry data
- Develop intuitive interfaces for alert configuration, visualization, and management using React and modern frontend technologies
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand monitoring requirements and deliver comprehensive alerting solutions
- Mentor and guide engineers on best practices for observability and alerting architecture
- This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
Our take
In a bid to simplify big data analytics, Cribl offers a data observability pipeline which allows users to reduce low value data, improve routing and gain more data context on one interface.
As companies now collect more and more data from frequently scattered sources, its useability and reliability comes into question. By offering an observability service, Cribl allows users to maintain the health of their data systems by monitoring, tracking and troubleshooting issues.
Cribl's main challenge will be competing with the likes of Observe and Edge Delta. However, Cribl has raised impressive funds that should accelerate its transition from a limited tool vendor to a fully-fledged observability suite. The company also boasts surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue, having grown this from $1 million in less than four years.
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Insights
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2024
$200m
SERIES E
May 2022
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $592.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance: Our comprehensive benefit plans have you and your family covered when it comes to the important stuff. Beyond the basics, we also have supplemental plans like accident insurance, One Medical, and FSA/HSA accounts.
- Disability and income protection: When you need it most, Cribl's disability and income protection benefits have your back, with up to 4 weeks of paid medical leave. We also cover basic life insurance with options to increase your coverage.
- Mental health Care: Mental health is physical health! We offer free coaching, therapy sessions and more through Modern Health to support you in navigating all aspects of life.
- Retirement plan: Saving for the future doesn't happen all at once. We offer retirement accounts to help you make progress towards your financial goals.
- Family planning: Regardless of what your family unit looks like at home, Cribl supports your journey by offering family-forming benefits from adoption, to fertility, and through postpartum. We also offer a paid gender-neutral parental leave benefit to support you and your family.
- Time off: We offer generous, flexible time off for all employees and empower you to balance your work and life in the ways that suit you best. Twice a year we all log off together for a "Recharge Day", and in December we enjoy a company-wide winter break.
- Remote office perks: All new employees receive a one-time $1,000 stipend towards their home-office set up. We also offer a monthly reimbursement for phone, internet, coworking pass, or a weekly meal.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Clint Sharp
(Co-Founder & CEO)They were Chief Software Architect at Prophetline from 1999 to 2002, and the founder of Aggregate Technology Solutions. They were also Senior Director of Product Management at Splunk.
Dritan Bitincka
(Co-Founder & Products)They worked as Computer Sciences Laboratory Director at Farleigh Dickinson University. Joined Splunk as Principal Architect in 2011.
Ledion Bitincka
(Co-Founder & CTO)They acted as a Scientific Consultant at Harvard University before joining Looksmart as a Software Engineer in 2006. They founded Triangulus Communications and were Splunk's Advanced Development Architect.
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