Senior Engineering Manager, Test & Quality Automation

US Diversity Job Search; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 225,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, short-term dis

Life insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k)

Equity

Fertility treatment benefit

Job summary

Cribl is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a remote-first, cross-functional team of SDETs responsible for the quality and reliability of all Cribl products. This hands-on leadership role ensures quality is built in from design to release with agentic workflows.

You will drive engineering excellence, lead test automation, CI stability, and defect prevention while partnering with product mgmt and engineering managers. The role requires 10+ years in industry and 4+ years in leadership.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in establishing testing strategy and defining quality metrics.
• Thorough understanding of the SDLC and agentic development.
• Strong knowledge of test architecture, automation, CI/CD, observability, release management, and root‑cause analysis.
• Experience with AI-developed tests and workflows.
• 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.

Skills

Leadership

Test automation

CI/CD

Observability

Root‑cause analysis

SDLC

Education

BS CS/EE or equivalent

Job description

Cribl is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a remote-first, cross-functional team of SDETs responsible for the quality and reliability of all Cribl products. This hands-on leadership role ensures quality is built in from design to release with agentic workflows.

You will drive engineering excellence, lead test automation, CI stability, and defect prevention while partnering with product mgmt and engineering managers. The role requires 10+ years in industry and 4+ years in leadership.