Senior Software Engineer (Edge Agent)

• Cribl Edge is a vendor-neutral multi-platform agent that provides users with an intelligent and highly-scalable solution for edge-based data collection, serving hundreds of thousands of machines with diverse configurations
• As a Senior Software Engineer on the Edge team, your primary responsibility will be developing and maintaining back-end features for data collection across hundreds of thousands of Edge nodes across multiple platforms
• Design, build, and optimize software for data collection agents that run across Windows, Linux, and Mac environments
• Collaborate closely with UX designers, Product Managers, and fellow engineers to translate feature requirements into intuitive, high-performance user experiences
• Own the development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing and maintenance, delivering clean, efficient, and reliable code that meets customer needs
• Develop automated tests and comprehensive test plans to ensure high quality code and product features that work as expected
• Help maintain and support our SaaS products including periodic participation in our 24x7 on-call rotations
• This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance: Our comprehensive benefit plans have you and your family covered when it comes to the important stuff. Beyond the basics, we also have supplemental plans like accident insurance, One Medical, and FSA/HSA accounts.
• Disability and income protection: When you need it most, Cribl’s disability and income protection benefits have your back, with up to 4 weeks of paid medical leave. We also cover basic life insurance with options to increase your coverage.
• Mental health Care: Mental health is physical health! We offer free coaching, therapy sessions and more through Modern Health to support you in navigating all aspects of life.
• Retirement plan: Saving for the future doesn’t happen all at once. We offer retirement accounts to help you make progress towards your financial goals.
• Family planning: Regardless of what your family unit looks like at home, Cribl supports your journey by offering family-forming benefits from adoption, to fertility, and through postpartum. We also offer a paid gender-neutral parental leave benefit to support you and your family.
• Time off: We offer generous, flexible time off for all employees and empower you to balance your work and life in the ways that suit you best. Twice a year we all log off together for a “Recharge Day”, and in December we enjoy a company-wide winter break.
• Remote office perks: All new employees receive a one-time $1,000 stipend towards their home-office set up. We also offer a monthly reimbursement for phone, internet, coworking pass, or a weekly meal.

• Experience working remotely across timezones
• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science or similar field
• Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes
• Professional experience developing software using TypeScript, and Node.js
• Experience using assertion frameworks and tools to automate regression tests (e.g. Mocha)
• Experience leveraging the latest AI tools to accelerate delivery of features without sacrificing quality
• Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals, including memory management, CPU architecture/scheduling, filesystems, process lifecycles, and networking
• A love for goats
• A relentless drive to turn ideas into real, high-quality software that makes a difference
• Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP
• Exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills for swiftly resolving technical challenges
• Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• A steadfast commitment to ownership, ensuring that deliverables consistently meet high standards of quality and performance
• No fear! Speak your mind
• Excellent verbal and written communication, ability to clearly and concisely articulate complex technical topics to stakeholders
• Prior experience working on data intensive applications and/or data streams processing