Senior Software Engineer, Search Performance, Backend
Cribl
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $180,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptNode.jsSQLTypeScript
About the role
- Collaborate on a remote-first, diverse, inclusive, cross-functional team to expand integration of Cribl Search with 3rd-party providers
- Shape the future of Cribl Search by expanding development on a novel system implementing distributed and federated search across in-place data
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with an eye towards observability and resilience
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders to define project goals and acceptance criteria
- Help define and refine software development practices for the team
- Work on a mix of new features, bug fixes, and technical debt
- Participate in the entire software development lifecycle from requirements and design to testing, deployment, and production support/monitoring
- Share on-call responsibilities and take part in a team that embraces service ownership
- Perform stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties as required
Requirements
- You are a self-starter, require minimal supervision, and have a track record of learning quickly
- Ability to problem-solve from first principles and maintain focus on overarching objectives
- Experience building search, query and/or analytic systems working with structured and unstructured data
- Experience with data structures and algorithms
- Familiar with AWS, Lambda, and cloud Infrastructure
- Experience with agile processes and rapid iterative development
- Experience in developing distributed systems and working with data at scale
- Experience working in a dynamic and highly innovative environment
- 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
- Experience with frontend development (bonus; 5-10% frontend contributions)
- Experience working remotely
- Experience with Typescript/JavaScript, NodeJS, and SQL
- Willingness to share on-call responsibilities and perform stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
- No fear; speak your mind
- Good jokes (or bad jokes)
- A love for goats