Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

$144,000 - $278,000/Yr

Cribl - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Austin, TX

About the position

Cribl Inc is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our mission to unlock the value of all observability data. As a remote-first company, we empower our employees to do their best work, wherever they are. In this role, you will be part of a team of technical engineers committed to shipping only high-quality software while enjoying a fun and collaborative work environment. You will contribute to envisioning, creating, deploying, testing, and shipping Cribl products, which are designed to provide users with a new level of observability, intelligence, and control over their real-time data. This position is not just about fixing things on the operational side; our SRE engineers are involved from conception to design to development and all the way through production and beyond. If you are passionate about reliability and have strong opinions on how to improve systems, this opportunity might be what you have been waiting for to make a real impact in the tech industry.

Responsibilities

• Engage with teams and improve service delivery and reliability across their entire lifecycle.
• Measure and monitor all production systems with an eye towards availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Seek out the cause of errors and instability in our production cloud services and drive teams towards better operational excellence.
• Engage with product and platform teams to improve and evolve systems by lobbying for changes that improve reliability, resilience, and observability.
• Help identify and drive down toil with creative innovation and automation.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities.

Requirements

• Extensive experience with enterprise scale continuous delivery environments.
• 8+ years of experience with a DevOps or SRE job title.
• Development experience with JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript in a Linux/Mac environment.
• Experience with Configuration Management Tools like Terraform (preferred) or Puppet, Chef, Ansible.
• Experience with sustainable incident response in a blameless environment.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (prefer AWS) and container + orchestration technologies.
• Experience with APM and Observability tools such as New Relic, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana/Kibana, Sentry, etc.
• Background in Linux Systems Engineering.
• Experience with incident response related tools for instance, PagerDuty, FireHydrant, Blameless, etc.
• Comfortable with a high level of autonomy and working with a distributed team.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of Cloud and application security.
• Strong knowledge of cloud design patterns for scale, data management, resiliency, etc.
• A love for high quality and a knack for testing.
• Opinions about dashboards, metrics, and SLO's.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Fertility treatment benefit
• 401(k)
• Equity
• Eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus