| Company | Cribl |
| Job title | Staff Software Engineer, Cloud |
| Job location | USA – Remote |
| Type | Full Time |
Responsibilities:
- Drive technical excellence by defining and refining software development practices that emphasize quality, observability, and resilience
- Work on features, including authentication/authorization, orchestration, system notifications, and other platform features in order to support the multiple products Cribl offers to its customers
- Design and implement scalable solutions for complex distributed systems challenges using Node.js/TypeScript
- Mentor and empower junior engineers, helping them grow into technical leaders who can own major initiatives
- Partner with product teams and stakeholders to shape the technical vision and roadmap of your product area
- Balance technical debt, bug fixes, and new features through collaborative quarterly planning with Management, Product, and Operations teams
- Lead the full software development lifecycle while championing best practices in testing, deployment, and production monitoring
- Contribute across the full stack as we expand the capabilities of the Cribl platform
- Participate in an on-call rotation, embracing our culture of service ownership
Requirements & Skills:
- Proven track record building maintainable, well-tested Node.js/TypeScript applications
- Deep experience with distributed systems and large-scale SaaS platforms
- Strong background developing cloud-native services on major providers (AWS preferred)
- Excellence in designing secure, intuitive RESTful APIs
- Expert knowledge of data structures, algorithms, Linux, and distributed systems principles
- Experience implementing secure web development practices and performance optimization
- Proficiency with modern testing frameworks (Mocha, Cypress, Jest)
- Strong initiative and demonstrated ability to learn quickly
- Passionate about software craftsmanship and attention to detai
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience mentoring and growing engineering teams
- Expertise with CI/CD pipelines (BitBucket, Jenkins, CircleCI)
- Experience working with authentication/authorization systems
- Background in building out platform services
- Strong background in cloud design patterns
- Experience with serverless/Lambda architectures
- Excellent communication skills and willingness to voice opinions
- Comfort working in a remote environment
- Appreciation for both good and questionably good jokes
- A fondness for goats is a plus!
