Staff Software Engineer - Cloud

About the Opportunity

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cribl Platform Services team, you'll shape the future of our distributed data processing platform while leading a small, nimble team. You'll collaborate directly with Product and Operations teams to deliver end-to-end features that delight our users. Your wealth of experience and technical wisdom will help guide architectural decisions and mentor team members, all while maintaining an iterative and incremental development approach.

What You'll Accomplish

• Drive technical excellence by defining and refining software development practices that emphasize quality, observability, and resilience

• Work on features, including authentication/authorization, orchestration, system notifications, and other platform features in order to support the multiple products Cribl offers to its customers

• Design and implement scalable solutions for complex distributed systems challenges using Node.js/TypeScript

• Mentor and empower junior engineers, helping them grow into technical leaders who can own major initiatives

• Partner with product teams and stakeholders to shape the technical vision and roadmap 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

• Contribute across the full stack as we expand the capabilities of the Cribl platform

• Participate in an on-call rotation, embracing our culture of service ownership

Required Qualifications

• Proven track record building maintainable, well-tested Node.js/TypeScript applications

• Deep experience with distributed systems and large-scale SaaS platforms

• Strong background developing cloud-native services on major providers (AWS preferred)

• Excellence in designing secure, intuitive RESTful APIs

• Expert knowledge of data structures, algorithms, Linux, and distributed systems principles

• Experience implementing secure web development practices and performance optimization

• Proficiency with modern testing frameworks (Mocha, Cypress, Jest)

• Strong initiative and demonstrated ability to learn quickly

• Passionate about software craftsmanship and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience mentoring and growing engineering teams

• Expertise with CI/CD pipelines (BitBucket, Jenkins, CircleCI)

• Experience working with authentication/authorization systems

• Background in building out platform services

• Strong background in cloud design patterns

• Experience with serverless/Lambda architectures

• Excellent communication skills and willingness to voice opinions

• Comfort working in a remote environment

• Appreciation for both good and questionably good jokes

• A fondness for goats is a plus!