Customer Success Engineer, Federal

Headquarters: Remote - Washington, D.C.

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
We are a remote-first company and work happens across many time-zones - you may be required to occasionally perform duties outside your standard working hours

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

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
Local to the greater Washington D.C. area
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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

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