Senior Software Engineer, Search Performance, Backend

Cribl

full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $180,000 - $215,000 per year

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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

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