CtrlB

Software Development Engineer

About the Job

As a Software Engineer at CtrlB, you will build a fast, intuitive, and reliable product that developers rely on to

monitor and troubleshoot systems at scale. You'll work across high-volume data pipelines, distributed systems,

and customer-facing features, streamlining how data flows through the platform and how users interact with

insights in real time.

Your work will directly impact developers around the world, solving large-scale performance and reliability

challenges while building a platform that is both powerful and effortless to use. You’ll tackle complex

engineering problems involving huge datasets, low-latency processing, and scalable architecture.

You'll collaborate with a highly skilled team of engineers, working in an environment that values ownership,

learning, and technical excellence. Join us to build the next generation of high-scale, data-driven software for

modern engineering teams.

At CtrlB, we operate on-site and we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the

creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and scale core services that handle high-volume data and distributed workloads

• Ship features to production end-to-end, testing, monitoring, and rolling them out safely using

incremental deployments

• diagnose, and resolve issues in production systems owned by your team

• Improve system performance, reduce latency, and architect services to supDebugport higher data

throughput

• Work with your team to define priorities, break down complex problems, and plan upcoming

initiatives

• Collaborate closely with product and design to translate real customer workflows into technical

solutions

• Work in a Hybrid Engineering model and contribute to all phases of SDLC including design,

implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing of the features.

• Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or in related technical field or equivalent practical experience

• You are available fulltime and comfortable working from office for 6 days a week

• You have passion for designing and engineering high experience and competitive architectures

• Understand the concepts of Operating Systems, DBMS & Networking

• You are familiar with data structures and algorithms, profiling and optimization

• You value code simplicity, performance and details

• Experience with languages like GO and RUST is bonus

• Proficient in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along

with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases

• A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrating leadership skillsCtrlB values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on

day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to

apply

About CtrlB

CtrlB is a unified observability and security data platform purpose-built for modern, large-scale systems. We

provide a single place to store, query, and analyse logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and security events - without

the complexity of managing multiple tools or data pipelines.

Powered by our high-performance indexing and compression architecture, CtrlB delivers:

• 10x faster queries

• Up to 90% lower storage footprint

All while ensuring data reliability and forensic depth that engineering and security teams can trust.

We are on a mission to make debugging, monitoring, and threat investigation radically faster and simpler.

Teams use CtrlB to reduce MTTR, catch issues before they impact users, and investigate incidents quickly -

whether operational or security-driven.

Built by engineers, for engineers - CtrlB values clarity, ownership, and technical excellence. Here, you’ll get to

shape the core of a deeply technical product, work closely with the founders, and build systems that power

critical infrastructure for teams around the world.

If you want to push the boundaries of distributed systems, indexing, and real-time data processing, you’ll

feel at home here

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