Staff Software Engineer, Search - Frontend

Why You'll Love This Role

Are you excited about enabling customers to find, analyze, and visualize their operational data, no matter where it lives, regardless of format or storage medium? Do you enjoy data visualization, performant and scalable user interfaces, query languages, and working on cutting edge technologies?

Cribl Search flips observability on its head by distributing queries to where your data already lives and aggregating the results - no more expensive data replication, centralized aggregation, megaIOPS+petabyte storage, or kilocore+terabyte hosts required to see what’s going on in your deployed environments. Want to find specific events, trace an execution, identify a threat, or graph metric trends from (ex.) data stored in EBS volumes, Cribl Edge nodes, S3 buckets, Azure blob stores, containers, RDBMSes, data lakes, or even a custom datastore? How about being able to do that from a single pane, regardless of heterogeneous storage / location / hosting / on-disk format? That’s what Cribl Search enables, and we think it’s a game-changer for helping Cribl become the data engine for IT and security.

Cribl is looking for a front-end focused Staff Software Engineer to collaborate on a remote-first, diverse, inclusive, cross-functional team of software developers as we build the Cribl Search user experience. You will play a central role in designing and developing user interfaces and visualizations that are scalable, robust, and user-friendly. This is an ideal role for anyone who is passionate about building high-performance web applications in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

On top of it all, you will have fun! Cribl strives to be a great place to work for everyone.

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

• Drive technical excellence by defining and refining software development practices that emphasize quality, observability, and resilience
• Mentor and empower junior engineers, helping them grow into technical leaders who can own major initiatives
• Work with cross-functional team members and stakeholders to decide on the vision and scope 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
• Share on-call and take part in team that embraces a model of service ownership

If You Got It, We Want It

• You are a self starter, minimal supervision and have a track record of learning quickly.
• Ability to problem solve from first principles and maintain focus on overarching objectives
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Experience building search, query and/or analytic systems working with structured and unstructured data
• Experience with full stack web development (e.g. React frontend with Node.js backend API/services)
• Experience developing interfaces for secure and scalable services (e.g. RESTful API, RPC)
• Experience implementing secure web development practices and performance optimization
• Experience using assertion frameworks and tools to automate regression tests (e.g. Playwright, CodeceptJS, Mocha, Cypress, Jest)
• Experience with advanced software development in large-scale, highly available, distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; able to explain complex technical topics to both internal and external stakeholders with ease and in remote/distributed environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of data visualization techniques and/or experience with visualization libraries such as Apache ECharts, D3, Recharts
• Proven track record building maintainable, well-tested applications using React, TypeScript, and Node.js
• Prior experience working on data intensive applications and/or data streams processing
• Experience using Docker and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP
• No fear! Speak your mind
• Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes
• A love for goats
• Experience working remotely

Salary Range ($200,000 - $225,000)

The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location. The salary offered within the range described will be based on the individual candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  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), equity, and eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus.