Senior Software Engineer, Cribl
Systems Insights
$165-200k
+ Equity
Data engine for IT and security
Open for applications
Data engine for IT and security
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$165-200k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower enterprises to unlock the value of all their data.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who loves distributed systems, high-volume data platforms, query performance, and the practical realities of building reliable SaaS infrastructure
- 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
What the job involves
- Cribl is building the next generation of customer-facing metric storage and query capabilities for observability data at massive scale
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design and build the metric store that will power how customers ingest, retain, query, and analyze their time-series data across Cribl products
- You will work on systems that handle high-cardinality telemetry, customer-facing APIs, storage schemas, query paths, ingestion pipelines, and the operational tooling needed to run them in production
- You will partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and Operations to shape a critical new product capability from early architecture through production hardening
- The work will span backend services, data modeling, performance optimization, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing product behavior
- Your technical leadership will help define how Cribl customers store, explore, and act on their metrics for years to come
- 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
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-function tool vendor to a fully fledged observability suite. The company also boasts surpassing $300 million in annual recurring revenue, having grown this from $1 million in less than four years.
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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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