Staff Software Engineer, Cribl
C021 Security
$170-280k
+ Equity + Discretionary company-wide bonus
Data engine for IT and security
Be an early applicant
Data engine for IT and security
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170-280k
+ Equity + Discretionary company-wide bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower enterprises to unlock the value of all their data.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production software systems
- Strong experience designing and implementing distributed systems in real-world environments
- Hands-on experience with data-intensive or streaming systems (e.g. , Kafka, Flink, Spark, Druid, or similar technologies)
- Experience building backend services and APIs that operate reliably at scale
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals
- Working knowledge of Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Ability to work independently on complex problems while collaborating effectively with a distributed team
- Clear and effective communication skills, especially in a remote environment
- Strong ownership mindset with attention to quality, performance, and maintainability
Desirable
- Experience building products or platforms for security practitioners
- Familiarity with security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
- Experience building rule engines, large-scale event processing systems, alerting workflows, or enrichment pipelines
- Exposure to AI-driven capabilities (e.g. , LLMs, embeddings, intelligent automation) in production systems
- Experience working on remote-first teams
- Experience with JavaScript and Node.js
- Willingness to speak up, challenge ideas constructively, and share opinions
- Appreciation for good jokes (or bad ones)
- A love for goats
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to join a new product initiative within C021
- In this role, you’ll be a senior technical contributor working closely with engineers, domain experts, and product partners to design and build core capabilities of an emerging data platform
- You’ll take ownership of significant technical areas, help translate ambiguous ideas into working systems, and stay deeply hands-on in the code
- The work is a blend of research and development, focused on building scalable, reliable systems that process large volumes of data in real time
- Own and deliver key technical components of a new data-driven product, with a focus on backend platforms, APIs, and data processing pipelines
- Partner with product and domain stakeholders to understand customer needs and incorporate feedback into solutions
- Design, build, and evolve scalable systems that ingest, process, and route high-volume streaming data
- Collaborate with peers and technical leaders to contribute to architecture and design decisions across the team
- Turn loosely defined ideas into concrete technical designs and working implementations
- Lead development of complex features end-to-end, from early exploration and prototyping through production rollout
- Stay hands-on in the codebase, contributing high-quality code, reviewing pull requests, and improving core abstractions
- Mentor and support other engineers, raising the overall technical bar of the team
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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