Manager of Software Engineering, Cribl
Cribl Lake
$190-260k
+ Equity & Eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus
Data engine for IT and security
Job no longer available
Data engine for IT and security
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$190-260k
+ Equity & Eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower enterprises to unlock the value of all their data.
Role
Who you are
- Have 4+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers in distributed systems environments
- Bring expertise in cloud-native storage systems, object storage (e.g. S3), file formats like Parquet or JSON, or high-throughput ingestion architectures
- Be comfortable working in fast-paced environments and balancing delivery with quality and technical debt management
- Be an excellent communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts and drive alignment across functions
- Have professional experience with Go, Node.js, or similar technologies—or a demonstrated ability to lead in unfamiliar technical stacks
- Have a background in distributed systems, backend infrastructure at scale, and operational excellence
What the job involves
- Cribl is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the team behind Cribl Lake, our cloud-native data lake built for long-term, full-fidelity observability data storage
- Ribl Lake enables customers to ingest, store, and query data in open formats like JSON and Parquet without vendor lock-in or the need for expensive hot storage
- With seamless integrations across the Cribl suite, Lake helps teams efficiently organize data into datasets, search it in place using Cribl Search, and replay it through Stream for downstream analysis, compliance, and incident response
- As Engineering Manager for Lake, you’ll lead a remote-first, cross-functional team responsible for building and scaling Lake’s core platform, ranging from ingestion and schema management to storage organization and search enablement
- You’ll help shape the foundation of Cribl’s long-term data strategy, collaborating across teams to deliver a cohesive, high-performance customer experience
- Build, lead, and support a diverse and inclusive engineering team that values code quality, ownership, and customer outcomes
- Partner with product management and engineering leadership to define and deliver the roadmap for Lake
- Guide the team in designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining scalable features across the Lake platform, with an emphasis on performance and reliability
- Ensure engineering best practices are followed and team members are growing in alignment with Cribl’s career ladder
- Drive cross-team collaboration, especially with Cribl Search, Stream, and internal infrastructure teams, to build cohesive and integrated experiences
- Foster a strong DevOps culture with a focus on observability, operational readiness, and proactive incident prevention
- This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
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 tool vendor to a fully-fledged observability suite. The company also boasts surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue, having grown this from $1 million in less than four years.
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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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