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
Cribl Edge is a vendor-neutral multi-platform agent that provides users with an intelligent and highly-scalable solution for edge-based data collection, serving hundreds of thousands of machines with diverse configurations. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Edge team, your primary responsibility will be developing and maintaining back-end features for data collection and enabling users to manage hundreds of thousands of Edge nodes in their deployment.
This is a fully remote role and Cribl is a remote first company. Our culture embraces the diversity of team members spread all across the globe.
As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will...
- Design, build, and optimize software for data collection agents that run across Windows, Linux, and Mac environments, while enabling robust centralized management and orchestration of large-scale distributed Edge deployments
- Collaborate closely with UX designers, Product Managers, and fellow engineers to translate feature requirements into intuitive, high-performance user experiences.
- Own the development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing and maintenance, delivering clean, efficient, and reliable code that meets customer needs.
- Develop automated tests and comprehensive test plans to ensure high quality code and product features that work as expected
- Help maintain and support our SaaS products including periodic participation in our 24x7 on-call rotations
- This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
If You've Got It - We Want It
- Bachelor's / Master’s degree in Computer Science or similar field
- Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Experience with advanced software development in large-scale, highly available, distributed systems
- Excellent verbal and written communication, ability to clearly and concisely articulate complex technical topics to stakeholders
- A steadfast commitment to ownership, ensuring that deliverables consistently meet high standards of quality and performance.
- Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals, including memory management, CPU architecture/scheduling, filesystems, process lifecycles, and networking
- Exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills for swiftly resolving technical challenges.
- A relentless drive to turn ideas into real, high-quality software that makes a difference.
- Professional experience developing software using TypeScript, and Node.js
- Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience using assertion frameworks and tools to automate regression tests (e.g. Mocha)
- Prior experience working on data intensive applications and/or data streams processing
- Experience working remotely across timezones
- No fear! Speak your mind
- Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes
- A love for goats
Salary Range ($150,000 - $250,000)
The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location. The salary offered within the range described will be based on the individual candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to a competitive salary, Cribl also offers a generous benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and paid time off, a fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), equity, and eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus.
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Bring Your Whole Self
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.
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Although Cribl is headquartered in San Francisco, we support a remote-first and distributed workforce. We believe great work can happen anywhere!
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