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Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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Cribl is hiring a senior staff-level Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability, scalability, and observability of its cloud telemetry platform. The role spans the full service lifecycle, from system design and development through production operations, incident response, and continuous reliability improvements. Key work includes infrastructure automation, production monitoring, reducing operational toil, and advocating for resilient cloud design patterns with product and platform teams. The engineer will work autonomously in a distributed team and participate in on-call or off-hours support. Strong experience with AWS or Azure, Kubernetes-style orchestration, Terraform or Ansible, observability tooling, and JavaScript or TypeScript is expected.
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Join the company that’s building the telemetry infrastructure for the AI era. At Cribl, we partner with IT and Security teams at many of the world’s biggest enterprises, including half of the Fortune 100, to bridge the gap between AI ambition and infrastructure reality. As the AI Platform for Telemetry, we give customers the choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze telemetry for both humans and agents, so they can build what’s next.

We’re one of the fastest‑growing private companies and a leading player in a massive, fast‑moving market. With a global workforce, we’re remote‑first and grounded in a simple idea: software is a people business. Cribl is the place where curious, collaborative people can do their best work, grow fast, and bring their full selves to the herd.

Why You’ll Love This Role

Cribl Inc is seeking a Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our mission where you will unlock the value of all observability data, as we expand our team in Australia. Cribl provides users a new level of observability, intelligence and control over their real-time data. You will join a team of technical engineers who are committed to shipping only high-quality software and enjoying all the goat gifs the internet has to offer. This role is remote, and you will be part of the engineering organization where you will contribute in our efforts to envision, create, deploy, test, and ship Cribl products.

Not often do you get to be part of something that is fundamentally changing a technology. But here at Cribl we are building the next generation of software that puts our customers in full control of their observability data. If this is something that interests you, and you want to be truly at the center of the wheel helping make this work better every day. Then this opportunity might be something you have been waiting for to be a part of making a real impact.

We are looking for Cloud Site Reliability Engineers and Developers at all levels at Cribl, who enjoy being in the thick of it. Fixing things at the operational side should always be the last resort, so our SRE engineers are involved from conception to design to development and all the way through production and beyond. You provide your creative input into all things Cloud, Scaling, Reliability, High Availability and much more.

If reliability is your passion, and you have always had strong opinions on how to make things better and have the desire to build consensus around ideas. Then let’s talk!

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…

  • 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
  • This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties


If You’ve Got It – We Want It

  • Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating observability systems for complex cloud-based platforms, with deep knowledge of best practices and a strong drive to implement them leveraging Cribl products
  • Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as a Code Tools like Terraform (preferred) or Ansible. Experience working with Cloud SDKs is also a plus
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms (prefer AWS and Azure) and container + orchestration technologies
  • Experience with APM and Observability and related tools such as, New Relic, Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana/Kibana, Sentry etc.
  • Extensive experience with enterprise scale continuous delivery environments
  • Development with JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript in a Linux/Mac environment
  • Experience with sustainable incident response in a blameless environment
  • 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
  • Knowledge of Cloud and application security best practices
  • Strong knowledge of cloud design patterns for scale, data management, resiliency, etc.
  • A love for high quality and a knack for testing
  • Opinions about business metrics, and SLOs

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Bring Your Whole Self

Diversity drives innovation, enables better decisions to support our customers, and inspires change for the better. We’re building a culture where differences are valued and welcomed, and we work together to bring out the best in each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Interested in joining the Cribl herd? Learn more about the smartest, funniest, most passionate goats you’ll ever meet at cribl.io/about-us.

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Role DNA

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AI insightЭто staff-level SRE-позиция с ответственностью за надёжность сложных облачных сервисов, архитектурные решения и снижение операционных рисков. Сложность повышают on-call обязанности, необходимость влиять на несколько инженерных команд и требования к глубокой экспертизе в observability и облачной инфраструктуре.

Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job median (per year)Market rate
$180,000
US market range (per year)$145k–$220k
AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. Зарплата работодателем не раскрыта. Указана ориентировочная годовая рыночная оценка в USD для staff-level Site Reliability Engineer; выбран годовой период как наиболее типичный для постоянной senior/staff инженерной роли.

Core skills

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Sample interview questions
How would you define and implement SLOs for a customer-facing telemetry ingestion service?

I would first identify user-critical journeys such as ingestion acceptance, processing latency, and query availability. I would define measurable SLIs for success rate, latency, and data-loss behavior, set SLOs based on customer expectations and system capability, and use error budgets to guide release and reliability decisions.

Describe how you would investigate an intermittent increase in latency across a distributed cloud service.

I would correlate metrics, logs, traces, deployment events, and infrastructure changes over the affected period. I would segment the issue by region, tenant, dependency, and request path, then validate likely bottlenecks such as saturation, throttling, network latency, or downstream dependency degradation before implementing and measuring a fix.

What approach would you take to reduce operational toil in an SRE team?

I would quantify recurring manual work, prioritize tasks by frequency and operational risk, and automate stable workflows with clear ownership and guardrails. I would also address root causes rather than only automating symptoms, and track toil reduction as an engineering outcome.

How do you use infrastructure as code safely in production?

I use version-controlled modules, peer review, automated validation, policy checks, and environment-specific plans before deployment. Changes should be small, observable, reversible where possible, and applied through a controlled CI/CD workflow rather than manual production modification.

How would you lead a blameless incident review after a significant outage?

I would establish an accurate timeline, document technical and organizational contributing factors, and focus on how the system allowed the failure rather than individual fault. The review should produce clearly owned corrective actions, such as monitoring improvements, resilience changes, runbook updates, and follow-up validation.

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