Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Cloud

About Cribl

Cribl unlocks the value of observability data.

Our products deliver choice and control over the rising volumes of telemetry data, enabling every organization to realize the value of all their observability data without limitation. Backed by the industry’s leading venture capitalists, including CRV, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and IVP, our solutions are deployed across organizations of all sizes. Many of the biggest names in the most demanding industries trust Cribl to solve their most pressing observability needs.

At our core, we foster an inclusive, values-aligned culture where all belong. We believe in a remote-first operating model, empowering the flexibility to do your best work, wherever you are. We’re also growing rapidly, welcoming collaborative, curious, and motivated team members who are passionate about putting customers first. 

Join the herd and unlock your opportunity.

About the Team

Cribl Inc is seeking a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our mission where you will unlock the value of all observability data, as we expand our team. Cribl provides users a new level of observability, intelligence and control over their real-time data. You will join a team of technical engineers who are committed to shipping only high-quality software and enjoying all the goat gifs the internet has to offer. This role is remote, and you will be part of the engineering organization where you will contribute in our efforts to envision, create, deploy, test, and ship Cribl products.

Not often do you get to be part of something that is fundamentally changing a technology. But here at Cribl we are building the next generation of software that puts our customers in full control of their observability data. If this is something that interests you, and you want to be truly at the center of the wheel helping make this work better every day. Then this opportunity might be something you have been waiting for to be a part of making a real impact.

We are looking for Cloud Site Reliability Engineers and Developers, at all levels at Cribl, who enjoy being in the thick of it. Fixing things at the operational side should always be the last resort, so our SRE engineers are involved from conception to design to development and all the way through production and beyond. You provide your creative input into all things Cloud, Scaling, Reliability, High Availability and much more.

If reliability is your passion, and you have always had strong opinions on how to make things better and have the desire to build consensus around ideas. Then let's talk!

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will...

• Engage with teams and improve service delivery and reliability across their entire lifecycle
• Measure and monitor all production systems with an eye towards availability, latency and overall system health
• Design observability systems for different types of applications, using Cribl products and other OpenSource tools
• Seek out the cause of errors and instability in our production cloud services and drive teams towards better operational excellence
• Engage with product and platform teams to improve and evolve systems by lobbying for changes that improve reliability, resilience, and observability
• Lead efforts enabling shift-left monitoring in the organization
• Help Identify and drive down toil with creative innovation and automation
• On-call responsibilities

If You Got It - We Want It

• Extensive experience with enterprise-scale continuous delivery environments
• Development with JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript in a Linux/Mac environment
• Experience with Configuration Management Tools like Terraform (preferred) or Puppet, Chef, Ansible
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (prefer AWS and Azure, GCP is nice to have) and container + orchestration technologies
• Extensive experience designing and implementing Observability platforms based on OpenSource tools like Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch
• Experience mentoring engineers, and acting as Subject Matter Expert in areas of Monitoring and Observability.
• Experience with native monitoring services in AWS, Azure and other popular Cloud Platforms
• Background in Linux Systems Engineering
• Experience with Incident response tools, for instance, PagerDuty, FireHydrant etc.
• Experience with sustainable incident response in a blameless environment
• Comfortable with a high level of autonomy and working with a distributed team

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Cloud and application security
• Strong knowledge of cloud design patterns for scale, data management, resiliency, etc
• A love for high quality and a knack for testing
• Opinions about dashboards, metrics, and SLO’s

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. 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.

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