Sr. Software Engineer - Systems Insights
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CriblTelemetry Infrastructure
Remote - United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary$165,000 — $200,000 USD
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsKafkaTypeScriptClickhousePrometheusLinuxSaaSDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 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
- Experience with systems such as ClickHouse, Prometheus, Mimir, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Kinesis, S3
- Experience using testing frameworks and tools such as Mocha, Jest, Cypress
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
- Share on-call responsibilities as part of a team that embraces service ownership
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