Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Join the company that’s building the telemetry infrastructure for the AI era. At Cribl, we partner with IT and Security teams at many of the world’s biggest enterprises, including half of the Fortune 100, to bridge the gap between AI ambition and infrastructure reality. As the AI Platform for Telemetry, we give customers the choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze telemetry for both humans and agents, so they can build what’s next.

We’re one of the fastest‑growing private companies and a leading player in a massive, fast‑moving market. With a global workforce, we’re remote‑first and grounded in a simple idea: software is a people business. Cribl is the place where curious, collaborative people can do their best work, grow fast, and bring their full selves to the herd.

Why You’ll Love This Role

Cribl Inc is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our mission where you will unlock the value of all observability data, as we expand our team in the U.S. 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 within the U.S., 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. 

Fixing things at the operational side should always be the last resort, so our SREs 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
• 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 
• Help identify and drive down toil with creative innovation and automation
• This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

If You've Got It - We Want It

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating observability systems for complex cloud-based platforms, with deep knowledge of best practices and a strong drive to implement them leveraging Cribl products.
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as a Code Tools like Terraform (preferred) or Ansible. Experience working with Cloud SDKs is also a plus.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (prefer AWS and Azure) and container + orchestration technologies.
• Experience with APM and Observability and related tools such as, New Relic, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana/Kibana, Sentry etc.
• Extensive experience with enterprise scale continuous delivery environments.
• Development with JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript in a Linux/Mac environment.
• Experience with sustainable incident response in a blameless environment.
• Background in Linux Systems Engineering.
• Experience with Incident response related tools for instance, PagerDuty, FireHydrant, Blameless etc.
• Comfortable with a high level of autonomy and working with a distributed team.
• Knowledge of Cloud and application security best practices.
• Strong knowledge of cloud design patterns for scale, data management, resiliency, etc.
• A love for high quality and a knack for testing.
• Opinions about business metrics, and SLOs.

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The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location and will be based on the individual candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

In addition to base salary, for sales and some sales-adjacent roles, employees are eligible to earn incentive compensation (commission). For all other roles, employees are eligible to participate in the Cribl Corporate Bonus Program.

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), and equity.

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, and 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.

Interested in joining the Cribl herd? Learn more about the smartest, funniest, most passionate goats you’ll ever meet at cribl.io/about-us.