This is a Job Description for a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Jackson, Mississippi

Summary:  As a Staff Backend Engineer at Cribl, you will help set the technical direction for Stream by working closely with an existing team of awesome engineers and product managers to help identify, design, develop, and deliver products that delight our customers.  Additionally, you will be empowered to influence our internal tools, technologies, and processes as we continue to grow. This role is equal parts research and development.  If you enjoy the challenges of building scalable, robust, and high performing distributed systems which process large data sets in real time, this position may be right for you.  In this role, you will join a team of skilled engineers committed to shipping the highest quality software and ensuring our customers’ satisfaction.  This is a fully remote role and Cribl is a remote first company.  Our culture embraces the diversity of team members spread all across the globe.

Duties & Responsibilities: Provide technical direction for products, projects, and features with emphasis on back-end systems and APIs responsible for ingesting, processing, and routing data. Contribute to architecture discussions and design reviews with others on your team. Partner with a cross functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers to translate feature specifications into product designs and implementable code. Design, develop, test, and maintain clear, concise, and robust code that produces the desired outcomes for our customers, ensure product features are working as expected by creating robust test plans paired with comprehensive automated tests. Mentor and coach junior engineers on the design and implementation of their code. Evangelize our innovation and engage our users by contributing to internal and external blogs related to the products that you help develop.

Requirements and Qualifications: Demonstrated experience building products that leverage large scale data sets (Node.js/Typescript/React). Enjoy learning new technologies and ability to develop prototypes quickly. Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. Experience with using and developing REST APIs. Experience with Agile processes and rapid iterative development. Strong sense of ownership with focus on high quality and high performing deliverable. Experience developing services for cloud based platforms

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.