Senior Performance Engineer

About Cribl

Cribl does differently. This means we are a serious company that doesn’t take itself too seriously. We are looking for people who love to get stuff done and laugh a bit along the way. We’re growing rapidly, seeking collaborative, curious, and motivated team members passionate about putting customers first. As a remote-first company, we believe in empowering our employees to do their best work, wherever they are.

As the data engine for IT and Security, many of the biggest names in the most demanding industries trust Cribl to solve their most pressing data needs. Ready to do the best work of your career? Join the herd and unlock your opportunity.

Why You'll Love This Role

Cribl is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer. We are a fast-growing, remote-first company with a mission to unlock the value of all observability data. At our core, we believe in shipping phenomenal products and doing good by our customers and communities. We provide our customers with a new and unprecedented level of observability, intelligence, and control over their real-time data. We're backed by Sequoia and CRV, and our products are deployed in some of the largest organizations in the world, processing hundreds of TB and PB of IT & Security data, and managed by Site Reliability Engineers, System Engineers, and Technical Operations teams.

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…

• Effectively communicate performance test plans and results to cross-functional team members and management.
• Develop and run tests at scale and complexity to identify performance bottlenecks and uncover anomalous system behavior.
• Root cause performance/scalability issues and work closely with development teams to make improvements.
• Develop tools and frameworks to enable development teams to easily add performance tests, using JS/TS/NodeJS; Docker; AWS; Azure; Jenkins.
• Integrate with our continuous testing systems, testing automation (Playwright), and reporting of performance metrics.
• This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties.

If You've Got It - We Want It

• 5+ years of software development experience, focusing on performance/scale testing.
• Expertise in designing and developing performance tests, especially with data intensive applications and/or data streams processing.
• Expertise in identifying and investigating performance issues.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud (AWS, Azure preferred) and Docker is a must.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD (Jenkins preferred) or any other system.
• Knowledge and understanding of resource management in Linux or Windows is a must.
• 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.
• No fear! Speak your mind.
• Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes.
• A love for goats.
• Experience working remotely.

Salary & Benefits

The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location, ranging from $165,000 to $195,000. The salary offered will be based on the individual candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to a competitive salary, Cribl also offers a generous benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and paid time off, a fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), equity, and eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus.

Bring Your Whole Self

Diversity drives innovation, enables better decisions to support our customers, and inspires change for the better. We’re building a culture where differences are valued and welcomed, and we work together to bring out the best in each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Interested in joining the Cribl herd? Learn more about the smartest, funniest, most passionate goats you’ll ever meet at cribl.io/about-us.

Key skills/competency

• Performance Testing
• Scalability Engineering
• Data Streams Processing
• Cloud Computing (AWS/Azure)
• Docker
• CI/CD (Jenkins)
• JavaScript/TypeScript/NodeJS
• Linux/Windows Resource Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Test Automation (Playwright)