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.
We’re one of the fastest‑growing private companies and a leading player in a massive, fast‑moving market. With a global workforce, we’re remote‑first and grounded in a simple idea: software is a people business. Cribl is the place where curious, collaborative people can do their best work, grow fast, and bring their full selves to the herd.
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 across hundreds of thousands of Edge nodes across multiple platforms.
- Design, build, and optimize software for data collection agents that run across Windows, Linux, and Mac environments
- 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
- 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
- Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
- Experience leveraging the latest AI tools to accelerate delivery of features without sacrificing quality
- 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
- 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
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The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location and will be based on the individual candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
In addition to base salary, for sales and some sales-adjacent roles, employees are eligible to earn incentive compensation (commission). For all other roles, employees are eligible to participate in the Cribl Corporate Bonus Program.
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), and equity.
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.
Cribl San Francisco, California, USA Office
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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