Cribl
Customer Success Engineer, San Francisco
Job Summary
This role focuses on post-sales customer advocacy, driving adoption and demonstrating value of Cribl solutions. The Customer Success Engineer acts as a trusted technical advisor, managing relationships with stakeholders and senior management. Responsibilities include onboarding, expanding customer use cases, troubleshooting, and promoting training. Candidates should have engineering experience, strong communication skills, and a customer-first mindset, with the ability to work cross-functionally and develop new data use cases.
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Job Description
Cribl does differently.
What does that mean? It means we are a serious company that doesn’t take itself too seriously; and we’re looking for people who love to get stuff done, and laugh a bit along the way. We’re growing rapidly - looking for collaborative, curious, and motivated team members who are passionate about putting customers first. As a remote-first company we believe in empowering our employees to do their best work, wherever they are.
As the data engine for IT and Security many of the biggest names in the most demanding industries trust Cribl to solve their most pressing data needs. Ready to do the best work of your career? Join the herd and unlock your opportunity.
Why You’ll Love This Role
The Customer Success Engineer (CSE) is the primary post-sales customer advocate. As a CSE you are hyper-focused on ensuring adoption is achieved and value is realized for the customer. You act as a highly technical, trusted advisor to ensure the customer achieves their use cases and business outcomes using Cribl solutions. Your role often involves collaboration within Cribl, with partners, and certainly with the customer.
The CSE must be ready to engage with both technical and management functions within an organization and demonstrate the value of Cribl in business discussions with company executives.
As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…
- Act as a trusted, strategic and technical advisor to customers, driving the entire Customer Success lifecycle from onboarding to expansion
- Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and senior management to drive Enablement, Adoption, and Value plans among other customer-centric initiatives
- Drive adoption and value while inspiring/discovering additional opportunities for Cribl further Cribl value
- Keep your finger on the pulse of your customers and keep things flowing for them. This includes driving and recommending use case initiatives, troubleshooting, encouraging and advocating for certification and training, etc
- Clear, effective communicator and collaborator working cross-functionally with the Cribl sales, marketing, product, experience, and engineering teams as the voice of the customer
- Track metrics and other customer-specific information with the Cribl Customer Success Platform to ensure maximum observability of our customer base and awareness of signs of customer distress/success.
- Continually inspire, mentor, and coach team members as an integral piece of the Customer Experience organization
If You’ve Got It - We Want It
- Minimum of 5 years in a related function with direct customer advocacy and engagement experience in post-sales with passion for customer success, an engineering-first approach, and empathy for customer outcomes and value
- A customers-first mindset with great communication and relationship management skills that can manage customer expectations through being empathetic and listening to our customers
- You take the time to listen and comprehend but are also a conversation starter.
- Proven track record and experience working with large complex enterprises and developing relationships in a high growth environment
- Proven track record and experience as an engineer working with large complex enterprises and developing relationships in a high-growth environment
- Experience with Observability, Logs, Metrics, IT Operations and Security with a deep understanding of managing data pipelines through the entire data lifecycle
- Proven ability to drive continuous product value by developing new use-cases relating to reducing, reusing, enriching, and routing data to achieve customer outcomes
- Quick learner with strong engineering and problem-solving skills
- Willingness to travel as needed (up to 15%-20%)
- You live in the San Francisco Bay Area, preferably North Bay (City, Oakland, San Mateo areas)
Bonus Points/Preferred Qualifications:
- Data Engineering/Analytics platform administrator/architect experience (i.e. Splunk, Elastic, Datadog, Snowflake, etc.)
- Solid technical understanding of managing customers through Customer Success Platforms such as GainSight or PlanHat
- Working knowledge of major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes
- Loves talking to customers and solving problems
- Experience working remotely
Salary Range ($110K - $180k)
The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location. The salary offered within the range described will be based on the individual candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to a competitive salary, Cribl also offers a generous benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and paid time off, a fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), equity, and eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus.
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Bring Your Whole Self
Diversity drives innovation, enables better decisions to support our customers, and inspires change for the better. We’re building a culture where differences are valued and welcomed, and we work together to bring out the best in each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
Interested in joining the Cribl herd? Learn more about the smartest, funniest, most passionate goats you’ll ever meet at cribl.io/about-us.
Cribl
Cribl is built for IT and Security data and provides a unified data management platform for exploring, collecting, processing, and accessing that data at scale.
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