Cribl
Staff Data Engineer
$170K–$220K
Remote - United States +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Location
- Remote - United States
US - California
About the job
Provides technical leadership for Cribl’s data engineering platform, owning core data systems and enabling analytics, data science, and AI workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture and operation of data systems, including Snowflake, pipelines, ingestion services, and self-hosted orchestration.
- Set technical direction, partner with cross-functional stakeholders, and mentor data engineers.
- Build and operate AWS services and infrastructure, advance dbt and infrastructure-as-code practices, and support production AI/agentic initiatives.
What they ask for
- Deep Snowflake expertise in data modeling, performance, cost management, and security/RBAC.
- Demonstrated technical leadership delivering complex systems and setting architecture or technical direction.
- Strong Python and SQL fundamentals, plus hands-on self-hosted orchestration and AWS/infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Experience building cloud or backend services and applying production engineering practices; fluency with AI-assisted development platforms such as Claude Code.
Nice to have
- Prefect; equivalent experience operating Airflow or Dagster on your own infrastructure is acceptable.
- Terraform (or equivalent) experience.
Pay
$170,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Snowflake, SQL, dbt, AWS, Prefect, Python, Terraform, Claude Code
AI focus
Prepare model-ready datasets, expose features, integrate AI/LLM workflows into production, and use AI-assisted development platforms to accelerate delivery.
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