Manager, Software Engineering (Cribl AI)

The Cribl AI Team has launched several high-impact products with growing adoption, including Copilot Chat, Pipelines, Search, and Editor.

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead their continued development, ensure reliability, and drive operational excellence. You will work closely with the founding team and a group of highly-skilled engineers to shape the future of search and analytics of observability data. You will play a central role in bringing integrating cutting-edge Generative AI technologies with the Cribl Product suite to help solve real customer problems.

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…

• Lead a cross-functional AI product engineering team, owning strategy and execution across multiple Copilot experiences.
• Drive technical direction and product evolution for the AI stack, inference backend, and user-facing AI products.
• Oversee infrastructure, on-call rotations, and operational processes.
• Operate in a player-coach model, contributing 25–40% of your time to hands-on engineering:
  • Writing evals
  • Testing and debugging features
  • Occasionally contributing to inference stack development
• This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties

If You’ve Got It – We Want It

• 4–7 years of Engineering Management experience
• Recent (within 5 years) hands-on engineering experience in: TypeScript / JavaScript, Python or Go
• Background in B2B SaaS product development
• Demonstrated interest in AI/ML
• Can articulate informed opinions about current AI trends
• Experience working directly with AI products
• Strong communication skills and leadership presence in a distributed team

Salary Range ($235,000 – $270,000)