• This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about building high-performance web applications and enjoys working in a dynamic, collaborative environment
• Bachelor's degree in CS/EE (MS Preferred) with 15+ years of industry experience
• Ability to problem solve from first principles and maintain focus on overarching objectives
• Demonstrated experience working with design partners and product managers to accelerate product innovation
• Experience building visualizations and search, query and/or analytic systems working with structured and unstructured data
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture principles
• Ability to lead projects across the team with autonomy
• Experience in developing distributed systems at scale
• Experience with agile processes and rapid iterative development
• 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

Desirable

• Cribl Inc is looking for a front-end focused Principal Engineer to drive and mentor a remote-first, diverse, inclusive, cross-functional team of software developers focused on the Cribl Search’s front end, as we execute on our mission to unlock the value of all observability data
• Cribl Search flips observability on its head by distributing queries to where your data already lives and aggregating the results - no more expensive data replication, centralized aggregation, megaIOPS+petabyte storage, or kilocore+terabyte hosts required to see what’s going on in your deployed environments
• Want to find specific events, trace an execution, identify a threat, or graph metric trends from (ex.) data stored in EBS volumes, Cribl Edge nodes, S3 buckets, Azure blob stores, containers, RDBMSes, data lakes, or even a custom datastore? How about being able to do that from a single pane, regardless of heterogeneous storage / location / hosting / on-disk format?
• That’s what Cribl Search enables, and we think it’s a game-changer for helping Cribl become the data engine for IT and security
• As a Principal Engineer, you will work closely with a group of highly-skilled engineers to shape the future of our front-end development
• You will play a central role in designing and developing user interfaces and visualizations that are scalable, robust, and user-friendly
• Design and develop a novel distributed and federated search system for streaming, batch and edge data
• Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers to build query system from first principles
• Host architecture discussions and design reviews with others on your team
• Develop expert level knowledge of software development using NodeJS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Docker, and Git
• Coach and mentor junior developers
• Evangelize our innovation and engage our users by contributing to internal and external blogs and by speak at meetups and conferences related to the products that you develop