Staff Data Engineer — Data Platform & AI Telemetry

Cribl; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits

Equity

Job summary

Cribl is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead data engineering initiatives and shape the architecture of Cribl's analytics platform. You will guide the data stack across Snowflake, dbt, Python, SQL, and self-hosted orchestration, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, production-grade data solutions.

In this high-impact role, you will mentor engineers, refine cost-aware data models, and drive toward secure, observable, and efficient data pipelines that enable AI-driven

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Snowflake: data modeling, query tuning, cost management, and security/RBAC design.
• Proven technical leadership experience as a tech lead or staff engineer.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication.
• Mentors engineers to grow junior and mid-level staff.
• Strong Python and SQL fundamentals with ELT and modeling experience.
• Hands-on AWS and infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or similar.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead for the Data Engineering team.
• Own architecture and design decisions for core data systems.
• Partner with Data Analysts, SREs, IT, and business teams.
• Clarify requirements, validate outputs, and communicate risks and timelines.
• Own and operate our self-hosted orchestration platform.
• Run and evolve Prefect deployment and its build/worker system.
• Own the operational hygiene and cost footprint of hybrid self-hosted orchestration.
• Own Cribl's Snowflake environment.
• Shape platform roadmap and architectural tradeoffs.
• Mentor and grow data engineers via code reviews and coaching.
• Prepare model-ready datasets and integrate AI workflows.
• Contribute to secure engineering practices with IT/Security.

Skills

Snowflake

Tech lead

Python

SQL

AWS

Prefect

Airflow

IaC

Terraform

Data modeling

Communication

Mentoring

APIs

Tools

dbt

Terraform

Python

Job description

Cribl is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead data engineering initiatives and shape the architecture of Cribl's analytics platform. You will guide the data stack across Snowflake, dbt, Python, SQL, and self-hosted orchestration, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, production-grade data solutions.

In this high-impact role, you will mentor engineers, refine cost-aware data models, and drive toward secure, observable, and efficient data pipelines that enable AI-driven