Staff Software Engineer, Search Integrations, Backend

Cribl

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with an eye towards observability and resilience
Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders within the vision and scope of your product area, helping define project goals and acceptance criteria
Help define and refine the software development practices that make our team effective – everybody’s feedback helps shape our process
Work on a mix of new features, bug fixes, and tech 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 team that embraces a model of service ownership
This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
Expand integration of Cribl Search with 3rd-party providers and shape the future of distributed, federated search across in-place data
Contribute to performance optimization, query language design, and building high-performance applications

You are a self-starter, require minimal supervision, and have a track record of learning quickly
Experience in integrating with 3rd party APIs
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 is a bonus, as 5-10% of work needs frontend contributions
Experience working remotely
Experience with Typescript/JavaScript, NodeJS, and SQL
Willingness to share on-call responsibilities and participate in stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes
A love for goats