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Cribl

Data observability platform for logs

Sales Engineer - Strategic

Pre-Sales Solution EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience in or working with a security analytics workflow, such as a security operations center, detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response, or experience supporting those teams as a technical resource.
  • Working knowledge of security information and event management and security analytics platforms, including how security teams use them day to day and where workflows break down.
  • Credible practitioner examples and an industry point of view.
  • Experience leading technical discovery and translating requirements into solution designs.
  • Ability to design a well-architected system without being an expert in every part of it.
  • Ability to learn the basics of unfamiliar technology quickly.
  • Ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to practitioners and decision-makers and handle objections.
  • Good judgment under ambiguity.
  • Leverage artificial intelligence to maximize effectiveness in the role.
  • Senior-level experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
  • A working foundation in data movement, telemetry pipelines, logging, networking, or data architecture.
  • Experience running hands-on evaluations, proof-of-value, or proof-of-concept in cloud, hybrid, and enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical discovery to understand a customer's environment, requirements, constraints, and success criteria.
  • Design customer-specific solutions that combine parts of the platform to fit real architectures and business outcomes.
  • Own proof-of-value and proof-of-concept execution end to end, keeping the evaluation tied to agreed success criteria.
  • Build credibility directly with security practitioners, including analysts, detection engineers, and security operations leaders, in conversations about their workflow and data pipeline.
  • Handle most technical questions and objections independently, pulling in specialists for edge cases and the hardest evaluations.
  • Partner with the Regional Sales Manager on account strategy, opportunity planning, and technical win strategy.
  • Build technical champions inside accounts and expand relationships beyond the first champion when the decision requires it.
  • Run the technical sales process with discipline, including customer relationship management hygiene, MEDDPICC alignment, milestones, and follow-through.
  • Contribute expertise to other teammates on the regional Solutions Engineer team.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Observability or Telemetry Engineering depth is welcome, although security analyst workflow depth is prioritized.
  • Depth in data movement, telemetry pipelines, logging, networking, or data architecture is welcome but is not the primary focus and can be developed in the role.

About the Company

Cribl

Data observability platform for logs

Cribl helps tech teams manage and understand their data through data observability. Its two main products, Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge, collect, route, transform, and analyze logs, metrics, and other observability data. Edge gathers real-time data from network edge devices, sending it to Stream or other destinations for processing. Stream routes and transforms data on-premises or in the cloud and forwards it to destinations, with integrations like Office 365 and Microsoft Azure to monitor activity and security. The goal is to give teams real-time visibility into data, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen security by managing data flows and observability insights.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Series E
Total funding
$596.4M
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2018

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