Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer

93226790; Australia; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cribl Inc is seeking a Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our mission in Australia. You will help unlock the value of observability data and contribute to the design, deployment, testing, and shipping of Cribl products.

This role is remote, with a focus on cloud reliability, high availability, and scalable systems, working within a distributed engineering team. You will engage with teams to improve service delivery, monitor production systems, and drive operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and operating observability systems for complex cloud platforms.
• Strong drive to implement best practices for reliability and observability.
• Hands-on with cloud and container technologies, automation, and IaC.
• Familiarity with incident response tools and blameless postmortems.
• Proficient in Linux environments and development in JS/TS.
• Experience with on-call duties and distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Engage with teams to improve service delivery and reliability across the lifecycle.
• Monitor production systems for availability, latency and health.
• Identify causes of errors in production cloud services and drive improvements.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to enhance reliability and observability.
• Automate toil reduction and drive efficiency through tooling.

Skills

Observability

Cloud platforms

Linux systems

Incident response

Automation

On-call readiness

SRE discipline

JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Cloud SDKs

New Relic

Splunk

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Kibana

Sentry

Job description

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 #LI-EL1 #LI-Remote