Customer Success Engineer, Federal

Cribl; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Short-term disability

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Fertility treatment benefit

401(k)

Equity

Job summary

Cribl, the AI-era telemetry platform, seeks a Customer Success Engineer in the Washington, DC area. You will guide customers through onboarding to expansion, becoming a product expert as they build observability pipelines and transform data in their organization.

You will engage with stakeholders to drive value, KPIs, and strategic outcomes, across Cribl’s customer base. This role demands 5+ years in customer success, Federal/Public Sector experience, and the ability to secure US clearance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years in customer advocacy and post-sales engagement.
• Experience with Federal or Public Sector and GovCloud/FEDRAMP.
• Strong communication and relationship management to set expectations with empathy.
• Ability to obtain US Security Clearance.
• Local to the greater Washington D.C. area.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted/strategic advisor for customers, driving the entire Customer Success lifecycle from onboarding to expansion.
• Become the trusted Cribl product expert as customers build out observability pipelines to transform data.
• Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and senior management to drive success plans and KPIs.
• Communicate effectively to our tech touch customers utilizing our platform to automate responses with data-driven metrics.
• Drive continued value by expanding use cases and data sources across teams.

Skills

Customer advocacy

Post-sales experience

Observability

Data pipelines

Public Sector experience

US Security Clearance

Tools

GainSight

Cribl Platform

Job description

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.

Location: Washington D.C.

Why You’ll Love This Role

The Customer Success Engineer (CSE) acts as a trusted advisor for the customer in achieving customer outcomes, value and success with Cribl solutions. This highly technical role needs to coordinate and strategize across several functions to enable customers to realize continuous value. CSEs must be data-driven to drive efficiency in communicating with all federal and public sector customers. The CSE must be ready to engage with various technical functions within an organization while also being able to demonstrate the value of Cribl in business discussions with company executives. The goal is to help our customers become successful and enthusiastic Cribl champions throughout the customer journey.

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…

• Act as a trusted/strategic advisor for customers, driving the entire Customer Success lifecycle from onboarding to expansion
• Become the trusted Cribl product expert as customers build out observability pipelines to transform data in their organization
• Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and senior management to drive success plans and KPIs at our largest customers
• Communicate effectively to our tech touch customers utilizing our customer success platform to automate our ability to respond using data-driven metrics
• Drive continued and expanded value by expanding usage of existing use cases and identifying new use cases, teams and data sources to reduce, enrich, and route data
• Clear, effective communicator and collaborator working cross-functionally with the Cribl sales, marketing, product, experience, and engineering teams as the voice of the customer
• Keep our customers healthy in their customer journey with Cribl to realize value with their purchase and continue to grow as a customer
• 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 and empathy for customer outcomes and value
• Experience with Federal or Public Sector organizations. GovCloud or FEDRAMP Experience
• Customers first, always mindset with great communication and relationship management skills that can manage customer expectations with empathy.
• Customer facing presentation history in program reviews or similar events
• Direct 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 good technical and problem‑solving skills
• Must be able to obtain a US Security Clearance
• Local to the greater Washington D.C. area

Bonus Points/Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with Cribl products or the Administration of Data Engineering platforms (Splunk, Elastic, Datadog, Snowflake, etc.)
• Solid technical understanding of managing customers through Customer Success Platforms such as GainSight
• Working knowledge of major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Must be able to obtain a US Security Clearance

Salary and Benefits

• The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location and will be based on the individual candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• In addition to base salary, for sales and some sales‑adjacent roles, employees are eligible to earn incentive compensation (commission).
• For all other roles, employees are eligible to participate in the Cribl Corporate Bonus Program.
• 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), and equity.
• Base Salary Range $110,000 — $180,000 USD

Diversity and Inclusion

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.

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