Cribl is a remote-first company focused on empowering employees and solving data needs for IT and Security. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead the Engineering Productivity team to enhance the software development lifecycle and improve the overall development experience for engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Chart the future of Cribl’s engineering tools, systems and practices
- Conceptualize and direct the evolution of our Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) metrics, capabilities and processes based on the state of the art and industry best practices
- Build a deep understanding of our engineering culture, tools and practices. Identify what works and what needs improvement
- Engage with engineers to understand their needs, concerns and desires. Improve the overall development experience, reduce friction, remove bottlenecks and assure quality, security and reliability across the entire SDLC
- Strategize on effectively integrating AI into our SDLC, ensuring clear business value, benefit to engineers, and return on investment
- Uncover risks and seek out inefficiencies, waste and bottlenecks across the SDLC
- Advocate engineering-wide improvements in governance, security and quality
- Participate in on-call
Requirements:
- Extensive experience with enterprise-scale engineering environments
- 5+ years of experience in a Devtools, DevOps or Engineering productivity role
- Experience as a tech lead providing technical direction and guidance to a technical domain or team
- Deep understanding of engineering best practices across the tech industry
- Comfortable with a high level of autonomy and working with a distributed team
- Passion for software quality and craft
- Development with JavaScript, Node.js or TypeScript in a Linux or Mac environment
- Experience with SCM, SCA, CI/ CD pipelines and Build tools
- Experience with agentic AI in software development
- Knowledge of cloud design patterns for scale, data management, resiliency and performance
- Knowledge of cloud platforms and container & orchestration technologies
- Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure and application security