Sr. Engineering Manager, SDET

Cribl; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

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 is a hands-on leadership role in ensuring that quality is built-in from the start of the software development lifecycle, implementing test strategy from design to release with agentic workflows.

You’ll play a key role in driving engineering excellence, delivering high-quality products to our customers while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Hands-on testing strategy and quality metrics for SaaS and customer-managed environments.
• Deep SDLC understanding and agentic development changes.
• Strong test architecture, automation, observability, and release management.
• Experience with AI-developed tests and workflows.
• 10+ years 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
• This position may include stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

Root cause analysis

Observability

Release management

Defect prevention

Agentic workflows

Education

BS CS/EE or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Why You’ll Love This Role

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a remote-first, cross-functional team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) responsible for the quality and reliability of all Cribl products. This is a hands-on leadership role in ensuring that quality is built-in from the start of the software development lifecycle, implementing test strategy from design to release with agentic workflows. You’ll play a key role in driving engineering excellence, delivering high-quality products to our customers.

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…

• 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

• This position may include stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

If You’ve Got It - We Want It

• Hands-on experience in establishing testing strategy and defining quality metrics for products that will be deployed in both SaaS as well as customer managed environments

• Thorough understanding of the SDLC and the changes required for agentic development

• Strong understanding of test architecture, automation, CI/CD, observability, release management, and root-cause analysis.

• Experience with AI-developed tests and workflows

• BS CS/EE or equivalent practical experience with 10+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years in a technical leadership role

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