Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: $240,000 - $400,000 (dependent on geographic location and candidate's qualifications)

Cribl is a serious company that doesn’t take itself too seriously, seeking collaborative, curious, and motivated team members who are passionate about putting customers first. As a remote-first company, Cribl empowers its employees to do their best work wherever they are. Cribl is the data engine for IT and Security, trusted by major companies to solve pressing data needs.

Role Details

Cribl Inc is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to contribute to unlocking the value of all observability data. You will join a team of software engineers and SREs committed to shipping high-quality software. This role is part of the engineering organization, contributing to the entire product lifecycle from conception to deployment and testing. Cribl is looking for Site Reliability Engineers at all levels who enjoy being involved in the core of the process.

Responsibilities

As an active member of the team, you will:

• Chart the future of Cribl’s observability and reliability systems and practices.
• Conceptualize and direct the evolution of reliability metrics, programs, and processes based on state-of-the-art and industry best practices.
• Engage with Product and Engineering teams to improve service delivery and reliability across the entire software lifecycle.
• Measure and monitor all production systems with a focus on availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Uncover risks and identify sources of errors and instability in production systems.
• Advocate for engineering-wide improvements in reliability, observability, and promote antifragility.
• Identify and drive down toil through creative innovation and automation.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

If you have the following, we want to hear from you:

• Extensive experience with enterprise-scale continuous delivery environments.
• 10+ years of experience in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Development experience with JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript in a Linux/Mac environment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform (preferred) or similar.
• Experience with sustainable incident response in a blameless environment.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and container orchestration technologies.
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability tools such as New Relic, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana/Kibana, Sentry, etc.
• Deep understanding of SRE practices, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Error Budgets, Post-Mortem Reviews (PRRs), and Problem Management.
• Comfort with a high level of autonomy and working with a distributed team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Cloud and application security.
• Strong knowledge of cloud design patterns for scale, data management, and resiliency.
• Passion for software quality and craft.

Company Information

Cribl is a remote-first company. In addition to a competitive salary, Cribl offers a generous benefits package including 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 bonus.