Sr. Engineering Manager, SDET
About The Position
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. We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a remote-first, cross-functional team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) responsible for the quality and reliability of all Cribl products. This is a hands-on leadership role in ensuring that quality is built-in from the start of the software development lifecycle, implementing test strategy from design to release with agentic workflows. You’ll play a key role in driving engineering excellence, delivering high-quality products to our customers.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in establishing testing strategy and defining quality metrics for products that will be deployed in both SaaS as well as customer managed environments
- Thorough understanding of the SDLC and the changes required for agentic development
- Strong understanding of test architecture, automation, CI/CD, observability, release management, and root-cause analysis.
- Experience with AI-developed tests and workflows
- BS CS/EE or equivalent practical experience with 10+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years in a technical leadership role
Responsibilities
- Own the quality strategy across Cribl products and communicate metrics for data-driven prioritization of the team’s roadmap
- Lead continuous improvement in test automation, CI stability, defect prevention, root-cause analysis, and escape-rate reduction.
- Continuously optimize end to end pipelines for both quality and velocity, removing bottlenecks for both people and agentic workflows
- Foster a "customer first" mindset by continuously running failure analysis to close the testing gap with customer deployments
- Establish a strong partnership with product management and engineering managers to ensure quality standards are implemented from the start
- Coach, mentor, and grow a remote-first team of exceptional test engineers focusing on agentic workflows
- This position may include stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
Benefits
- health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance
- paid holidays and paid time off
- a fertility treatment benefit
- 401(k)
- equity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
