Cribl is looking for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in alerting systems and metrics analysis to help build intelligent, responsive alerting capabilities and tackle complex observability challenges for their data engine used by IT and Security.
Requirements
- 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
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
Other
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and a track record of learning quickly
- Dedication to writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Willingness to speak your mind and share ideas
- Appreciation for humor and a love for goats
- Comfort working remotely
