Sr. Engineering Manager, SDET

About the role

Cribl is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a remote-first, cross-functional team of SDETs focused on the quality and reliability of all products. This hands-on leadership role involves implementing test strategy from design to release and driving engineering excellence across the software development lifecycle.

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

Required skills

• Test strategy
• Quality metrics
• SDLC
• Test architecture
• Automation
• CI/CD
• Observability
• Release management
• Root-cause analysis
• Agentic development

Nice to have

• AI-developed tests

Qualifications

• BS CS/EE or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short-term disability
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Fertility treatment benefit
• 401(k)
• Equity

About the Company

Cribl is building the telemetry infrastructure for the AI era, partnering with IT and Security teams at major enterprises. As the AI Platform for Telemetry, the company provides choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze telemetry for humans and agents.