Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

Join the company that’s building the telemetry infrastructure for the AI era. At Cribl, we partner with IT and Security teams at many of the world’s biggest enterprises, including half of the Fortune 100, to bridge the gap between AI ambition and infrastructure reality. As the AI Platform for Telemetry, we give customers the choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze telemetry for both humans and agents, so they can build what’s next.

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.

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. 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.

Qualifications

• 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

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
• This position may require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on geographic location and individual candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience
• Incentive compensation (commission) for sales and some sales-adjacent roles
• Participation in the Cribl Corporate Bonus Program for all other roles
• Generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Fertility treatment benefit
• 401(k) and equity
• Base Salary Range: $165,000 — $200,000 USD

Company Description

Diversity drives innovation, enables better decisions to support our customers, and inspires change for the better. We’re building a culture where differences are valued and welcomed, and we work together to bring out the best in each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Interested in joining the Cribl herd? Learn more about the smartest, funniest, most passionate goats you’ll ever meet at cribl.io/about-us .