Cribl · 6 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer (Alerting & Observability)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $210K/yrCribl is a remote-first company focused on empowering employees to excel in their roles while prioritizing customer needs. As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in alerting and observability, you will design and build sophisticated alerting systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and tackle complex observability challenges.
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Responsibilities
Design and build sophisticated alerting systems that enable proactive monitoring and incident detection across distributed systems
Develop query-based alert rules and expressions using PromQL, SQL, and other query languages to surface meaningful insights
Create intelligent alert routing, deduplication, and correlation mechanisms to reduce noise and improve signal quality
Build scalable backend services for alert evaluation, notification delivery, and alert management workflows
Optimize time-series data storage and query performance for high-volume metrics and telemetry data
Develop intuitive interfaces for alert configuration, visualization, and management using React and modern frontend technologies
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand monitoring requirements and deliver comprehensive alerting solutions
Mentor and guide engineers on best practices for observability and alerting architecture
This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
Qualification
Required
Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js with a proven track record of building production-grade services
Experience with query languages for metrics and monitoring (PromQL, SQL, or similar) and ability to write complex queries for data analysis
Hands-on experience building or maintaining alerting systems, including rule evaluation engines and notification pipelines
Experience with time-series databases and columnar storage systems (ClickHouse experience is a plus)
Frontend development skills with React and modern JavaScript frameworks for building data visualization and management interfaces
Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms
Experience with observability concepts including metrics, logs, traces, and their correlation
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and a track record of learning quickly
Dedication to writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
Experience Prometheus ecosystem, including AlertManager
Background in building rule engines or expression evaluation systems
Experience with notification systems and integrations (PagerDuty, Slack, webhooks, etc.)
Familiarity with observability tools like Grafana, ELK stack, or similar solutions
Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as BitBucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc
Understanding of alert fatigue mitigation strategies and intelligent alerting patterns
Experience with high cardinality data and performance optimization
Willingness to speak your mind and share ideas
Comfort working remotely
Preferred
Appreciation for humor and a love for goats
Benefits
Health
Dental
Vision
Short-term disability
Life insurance
Paid holidays
Paid time off
A fertility treatment benefit
401(k)
Equity
Eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus
Company
Cribl
Cribl is a software company that designs a unified data management platform for exploring, collecting, processing, and accessing data.
Founded in 2018
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$721.21MKey Investors
Google VenturesTiger Global ManagementSequoia Capital
2025-06-19Secondary Market
2024-08-27Series E· $200M
2024-08-27Secondary Market· $119M
Leadership Team
Dritan Bitincka
Co-Founder & Products
Ledion Bitincka
Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer
Recent News
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