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# Software Engineer, Edge at Cribl

- **Company:** Cribl
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $145k–$190k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://cribl.io/job-detail/?gh_jid=6144377004

## Job description

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 Edge is a vendor-neutral multi-platform agent that provides users with an intelligent and highly-scalable solution for edge-based data collection, serving hundreds of thousands of machines with diverse configurations. As a Software Engineer on the Edge team, your primary responsibility will be developing and maintaining back-end features for data collection across hundreds of thousands of Edge nodes across multiple platforms.

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…

- Design, build, and optimize software for data collection agents that run across Windows, Linux, and Mac environments
- Collaborate closely with UX designers, Product Managers, and fellow engineers to translate feature requirements into intuitive, high-performance user experiences.
- Own the development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing and maintenance, delivering clean, efficient, and reliable code that meets customer needs.
- Develop automated tests and comprehensive test plans to ensure high quality code and product features that work as expected
- Help maintain and support our SaaS products including periodic participation in our 24x7 on-call rotations
- This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

If You’ve Got It - We Want It

- Bachelor's / Master’s degree in Computer Science or similar field
- Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals, including memory management, CPU architecture/scheduling, filesystems, process lifecycles, and networking
- Exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills for swiftly resolving technical challenges.
- Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Experience leveraging the latest AI tools to accelerate delivery of features without sacrificing quality
- Excellent verbal and written communication, ability to clearly and concisely articulate complex technical topics to stakeholders
- A steadfast commitment to ownership, ensuring that deliverables consistently meet high standards of quality and performance.
- A relentless drive to turn ideas into real, high-quality software that makes a difference.
- Professional experience developing software using TypeScript, and Node.js
- Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience using assertion frameworks and tools to automate regression tests (e.g. Mocha)
- Prior experience working on data intensive applications and/or data streams processing
- Experience working remotely across timezones
- No fear! Speak your mind
- Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes
- A love for goats

## #LI-EL1

#LI-Remote The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location and will be based on the individual candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

In addition to base salary, for sales and some sales-adjacent roles, employees are eligible to earn incentive compensation (commission). For all other roles, employees are eligible to participate in the Cribl Corporate Bonus Program.

In addition to a competitive salary, Cribl also offers a generous benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and paid time off, a fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), and equity.

Base Salary Range $145,000—$190,000 USD

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](https://cribl.io/about-us/).

## About Cribl

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cribl is the AI Platform for Telemetry, providing a vendor-agnostic platform to manage, route, shape, store, and analyze IT and security telemetry data at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E, $3.5B valuation as of January 2026)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: IT operations, observability, security (SIEM/SOC), data infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises (50% of the Fortune 100), government agencies
- **Mission / purpose**: "Give customers the choice, control, and flexibility to manage, investigate, and analyze telemetry for both humans and agents, with no lock‑in, no data loss, and no compromises."

## Products & Services
- **Cribl Stream**: Data routing and shaping pipeline for collecting, processing, and forwarding telemetry to any destination.
- **Cribl Edge**: Lightweight agent for collecting and forwarding telemetry from edge environments.
- **Cribl Search**: Vendor-agnostic search-in-place analytics tool that queries data across multiple sources without moving it.
- **Cribl Lake**: Low-cost object storage tiering for telemetry data.
- **Cribl Lakehouse**: Next-generation architecture for IT and security data combining lake storage with query capabilities.
- **Cribl.Cloud**: SaaS platform for onboarding data to logging tools, metrics databases, and cloud data warehouses.
- **Agentic AI enhancements**: AI-powered investigations and automation for SREs and security teams.

All products are offered as SaaS, self-managed software, or hybrid deployments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $3.5 billion (Series E, January 2026)
- **Key Metric**: $300M+ Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) as of December 2025
- **Total Funding**: $319M Series E (Jan 2026), $150M Series D (led by Tiger Global Management), $200M Series C (led by Greylock and Redpoint Ventures), $35M Series B (led by Sequoia Capital), $7.4M Series A, $4M Seed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global Management, CRV; customers include half of the Fortune 100
- **Growth Signals**: Surpassed $300M ARR; previously grew 70%+ YoY; achieved FedRAMP Authority to Operate (March 2026); ranked #1 on Forbes’ List of America’s Best Startup Employers (2024); 1,400+ employees

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vendor-agnostic architecture**: No lock‑in to any single data platform or cloud provider.
- **Search-in-place capability**: Query data where it resides (cheap storage, existing tools) without costly data movement.
- **End-to-end telemetry platform**: Combines ingest, routing, storage, search, and AI in one unified product suite.
- **Enterprise scale**: Proven with 50% of the Fortune 100 and government agencies (FedRAMP authorized).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-era infrastructure**: Building the telemetry foundation for copilots, agents, and AI-driven investigations.
- **Agentic AI enhancements**: Adding autonomous investigation and automation features to Cribl Search.
- **Product expansion**: Growing Cribl Lakehouse and Cribl.Cloud for simplified data management.
- **Government and regulated markets**: Leveraging FedRAMP authorization to expand in the public sector.
- **Continued growth**: Scaling headcount, ARR, and customer base while maintaining a strong culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes “Get Real” (authenticity), “Output > Input” (results over hours), “Excellence over Perfection” (progress over polish), and “All Hooves on Deck” (collaboration).
- **Remote-first**: Designed for asynchronous work, detailed documentation, and life‑friendly flexibility. Company and team offsites happen a few times a year.
- **Career growth**: Rotational programs, mentorship, clear career pathways, and a focus on helping employees “do your best work.”
- **Perks & benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, comprehensive benefits tailored by country. 9 Employee Resource Groups with >45% employee participation.
- **Engineering focus**: “Build high-quality products that empower customers”; bar raisers given projects, guidance, and roadmaps.
- **Awards**: Voted best place to work by Forbes, with strong employee satisfaction scores.

## Sources
1. [cribl.io/about-us](https://cribl.io/about-us/)
2. [cribl.io](https://cribl.io/)
3. [cribl.io/careers](https://cribl.io/careers/)
4. [cribl.io/careers/culture-at-cribl](https://cribl.io/careers/culture-at-cribl/)
5. [cribl.io/careers/engineering](https://cribl.io/careers/engineering/)

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