Sr. Software Engineer - Systems Insights
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.
Senior Software Engineer
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 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.
As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will...
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
If You've Got It - We Want It
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
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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.
Base Salary Range
$165,000—$200,000 USD
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.