# Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Cribl](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cribl)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $210k/yr
**Skills:** JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Terraform, Linux, Public Cloud, Distributed Systems, SaaS, API Development, Kubernetes, Cloud Security, Metrics, SLOs
**Posted:** 2026-05-01

> Builds and improves cloud infrastructure and tools using software-driven approaches for a telemetry platform. Requires expertise in JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript, Terraform, Linux systems, and large-scale distributed systems; involves on-call duties.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Contribute along with product and platform teams to build and deliver solutions that improve our cloud service, infrastructure, and tools.
- Solve infrastructure problems with a software-driven, cloud first approach and a keen eye towards quality, testability, and repeatability.
- Engage with teams directly to implement product roadmaps and objectives with a focus on service delivery and reliability.
- Contribute to the development of best practices and engineering standards within the team.
- Help identify and drive down toil with creative innovation and automation.
- Dedication to elegant and high-quality software.
- This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties.

## Requirements
- Development with **JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript** in a Linux/Mac environment.
- Significant experience building and deploying infrastructure in a public cloud environment using a software development driven approach (**Cribl uses Terraform**).
- Significant experience in complex development environments, especially in large-scale highly available distributed systems and SaaS platforms.
- A solid understanding of writing software and API driven solutions that can be used to manage and abstract infrastructure details at the lowest level.
- Experience with scaling and deploying Linux-based systems.
- Experience with sustainable incident response in a blameless environment.
- Comfortable with a high level of autonomy and working cross functionally with a highly distributed team of engineers.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of Cloud and application security.
- Strong knowledge of cloud design patterns for scale, data management, resiliency, etc.
- A love for high quality and a knack for testing.
- Opinions about dashboards, metrics, and SLOs.

## Compensation
- Salary Range: **$160,000 - $210,000**
- Salary dependent on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- Generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, short-term disability, life insurance, paid holidays, paid time off, fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), equity, and eligibility for discretionary company-wide bonus.

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