Staff Data Engineer, Cribl
$170-220k
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
Data engine for IT and security
Be an early applicant
Data engine for IT and security
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170-220k
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
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower enterprises to unlock the value of all their data.
Role
Who you are
- If you're a seasoned engineer who thrives in an entrepreneurial environment, leads through influence and example, and is eager to help build a company poised for legendary success in the tech industry, we want to hear from you!
- Deep expertise in Snowflake: advanced data modeling, query and warehouse performance tuning, cost management, and security/RBAC design. This is the most important qualification for the role
- Demonstrated technical leadership: experience as a tech lead or staff-level engineer setting direction, driving architecture, and delivering complex systems across a team
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration: able to work across data, engineering, and business teams and lead through influence
- A track record of mentoring engineers: growing junior and mid-level engineers through coaching, review, and pairing
- Strong Python and SQL fundamentals, with solid ELT patterns and data modeling experience
- Hands-on experience operating self-hosted / self-managed orchestration. Prefect strongly preferred; equivalent experience running (not just authoring on) Airflow/Dagster on your own infrastructure is acceptable. Must be comfortable owning upgrades, workers, and the operational footprint, not only writing DAGs/flows
- Hands-on AWS and infrastructure-as-code experience: building cloud infrastructure with Terraform (or equivalent) using predictable, maintainable patterns
- Experience building cloud applications or backend services: APIs, ingestion services, and event-driven workflows
- Production-grade engineering practices: logging, alerting, versioning, CI/CD
- Fluency building with AI-assisted development platforms such as Claude Code, with a demonstrated ability to use them to accelerate delivery
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Staff Data Engineer to serve as a technical leader on Cribl's Data Engineering team
- You will be someone who can set direction for the systems that power analytics, data science, and operational decision-making across the company
- You'll operate at the intersection of the modern data stack (Snowflake, SQL, dbt), software and platform engineering (AWS, infrastructure-as-code, orchestration, observability), and our fast-emerging AI/agentic workflows
- This is a high-leverage, hands-on leadership role
- As a Staff engineer you'll act as a technical lead: partnering with the Data Engineering manager to shape technical strategy and architecture, mentoring and growing junior and mid-level data engineers, and raising the bar on how the team designs, builds, and operates its platform
- The pipelines, services, and standards you establish will directly influence how teams across Cribl understand the business, make better decisions, and experiment with new AI-driven experiences
- We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and innovative culture where team members enjoy working together — whether remotely or over a meal at a foodie hot spot
- Serve as a technical lead for the Data Engineering team. Own architecture and design decisions for core data systems and drive reliable, production-grade outcomes
- Partner with stakeholders across functions (Data Analysts, SREs, IT Engineers, and business teams). Clarify requirements, validate outputs, and communicate risks, tradeoffs, and timelines proactively
- Own and operate our self-hosted orchestration platform. Run and evolve our self-managed Prefect deployment and its build/worker system. Own the operational hygiene, upgrade path, and cost/footprint tradeoffs of running orchestration on a hybrid, self-hosted model
- Own Cribl's Snowflake environment. Serve as the subject-matter expert on data modeling, performance, and cost optimization, and own RBAC/permissions design, permissions tooling, and governance
- Build, operate, and monitor the core data tech stack. This covers data pipelines, ingestion services, integrations, and the warehouse, ensuring data is accurate, timely, and trusted, with logging, alerting, and observability as first-class concerns
- Advance the modern data stack. Drive our dbt practice forward, including the in-flight dbt Fusion migration, and own warehouse cost/performance at scale
- Develop cloud-native services and infrastructure on AWS. This includes our ingest/API services (event-driven ingestion, upsert patterns, package reuse) and the IaC that supports them
- Advance our infrastructure-as-code practice (Terraform or similar). Build reusable modules, clean deployment patterns, CI integration, and strong operational hygiene, including self-hosted/hybrid deployment patterns
- Partner with the Data Engineering manager to set technical direction. Shape the platform roadmap, engineering standards, and build-vs-buy/architectural tradeoffs
- Mentor and grow data engineers through code review, pairing, design feedback, and coaching that levels up junior and mid-level engineers
- Support Cribl's growing data science and agentic initiatives. Prepare model-ready datasets, expose features, and integrate AI/LLM workflows into production
- Contribute to secure, compliance-minded engineering practices in collaboration with IT/Security
- We are a remote-first company and work happens across many time-zones – you may be required to occasionally perform duties outside your standard working hours
Our take
In a bid to simplify big data analytics, Cribl offers a data observability pipeline which allows users to reduce low value data, improve routing and gain more data context on one interface.
As companies now collect more and more data from frequently scattered sources, its useability and reliability comes into question. By offering an observability service, Cribl allows users to maintain the health of their data systems by monitoring, tracking and troubleshooting issues.
Cribl's main challenge will be competing with the likes of Observe and Edge Delta. However, Cribl has raised impressive funds that should accelerate its transition from a limited-function tool vendor to a fully fledged observability suite. The company also boasts surpassing $300 million in annual recurring revenue, having grown this from $1 million in less than four years.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2024
$200m
SERIES E
May 2022
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $592.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance: Our comprehensive benefit plans have you and your family covered when it comes to the important stuff. Beyond the basics, we also have supplemental plans like accident insurance, One Medical, and FSA/HSA accounts.
- Disability and income protection: When you need it most, Cribl's disability and income protection benefits have your back, with up to 4 weeks of paid medical leave. We also cover basic life insurance with options to increase your coverage.
- Mental health Care: Mental health is physical health! We offer free coaching, therapy sessions and more through Modern Health to support you in navigating all aspects of life.
- Retirement plan: Saving for the future doesn't happen all at once. We offer retirement accounts to help you make progress towards your financial goals.
- Family planning: Regardless of what your family unit looks like at home, Cribl supports your journey by offering family-forming benefits from adoption, to fertility, and through postpartum. We also offer a paid gender-neutral parental leave benefit to support you and your family.
- Time off: We offer generous, flexible time off for all employees and empower you to balance your work and life in the ways that suit you best. Twice a year we all log off together for a "Recharge Day", and in December we enjoy a company-wide winter break.
- Remote office perks: All new employees receive a one-time $1,000 stipend towards their home-office set up. We also offer a monthly reimbursement for phone, internet, coworking pass, or a weekly meal.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Clint Sharp
(Co-Founder & CEO)They were Chief Software Architect at Prophetline from 1999 to 2002, and the founder of Aggregate Technology Solutions. They were also Senior Director of Product Management at Splunk.
Dritan Bitincka
(Co-Founder & Products)They worked as Computer Sciences Laboratory Director at Farleigh Dickinson University. Joined Splunk as Principal Architect in 2011.
Ledion Bitincka
(Co-Founder & CTO)They acted as a Scientific Consultant at Harvard University before joining Looksmart as a Software Engineer in 2006. They founded Triangulus Communications and were Splunk's Advanced Development Architect.
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