About the position
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.
Responsibilities
- Help to drive the technical direction and architecture of Cribl Lake and Lakehouse, ensuring its scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver on product roadmaps and objectives
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
- Identify and mitigate technical risks and debt, ensuring the long-term health of the codebase
- Contribute to the development of best practices and engineering standards within the organization
- Optimize and extend the capabilities of Cribl Lake and Lakehouse, leveraging your expertise in distributed systems and cloud technologies
- This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
Requirements
- Proven track record of writing clean, maintainable, and testable code (Node.js/TypeScript)
- Extensive experience in complex development environments, especially in large-scale highly available distributed systems and SaaS platforms
- Deep expertise in developing resilient and scalable backend services on cloud providers, preferably AWS
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, Linux, and distributed systems
- Experience using assertion frameworks and tools like Mocha, Cypress, Jest to automate regression checks
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and a track record of learning quickly
- Dedication to elegant and high-quality software
- Experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers
- Passion for making engineers successful and finding fulfillment through the success of others
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as BitBucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.
- Broad range of experience implementing various cloud design patterns
- Experience with serverless / lambda-based implementations
- Willingness to speak your mind and share ideas
- Appreciation for humor and a love for goats
- Comfort working remotely
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Fertility treatment benefit
- 401(k)
- Equity
- Eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus
