Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cribl is a company building the telemetry infrastructure for the AI era, partnering with IT and Security teams at major enterprises. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build a metric store for high-volume telemetry data, focusing on distributed systems and backend services.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Incentive compensation (commission) for sales and some sales-adjacent roles
- Participate in the Cribl Corporate Bonus Program for all other roles
- Health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance
- Paid holidays and paid time off
- A fertility treatment benefit
- 401(k)
- Equity
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