Engineering Manager, Platform Products - Remote

Overview

As the Engineering Manager for the Platform Products team at Cribl, you’ll lead the team building the foundational features and services that define the Cribl-managed experience. Our mission is to build the products and services that customers interact with every day foundations that are essential to the Cribl ecosystem even if they aren’t purchased directly.

In Short

• Build and grow exceptional teams: Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent capable of shipping quickly and maintaining high standards.
• Deliver at product speed: Drive projects from design to production, ensuring we ship product features faster than standard release cycles without sacrificing quality.
• Empower the Cribl ecosystem: Collaborate across engineering and product teams to build the foundations (like billing and workspaces) that allow other teams to ship and monetize their own products seamlessly.
• Own the customer journey: Take responsibility for the managed Cribl product experience, including domain areas like Billing, Dispensary, Workspaces, and Notifications.
• Champion operational excellence: Establish a culture of observability and reliability for customer-facing services.
• Stay technical: Provide hands-on code reviews and architecture guidance.
• This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties.

Requirements

• 2+ years as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead.
• Hands-On Technical Leadership: Comfortable staying close to the code when needed.
• Strong Technical Foundation: Prior experience as a Tech Lead or Staff+ engineer building backend systems.
• Frontend Experience (Nice to Have): Experience working with React or similar modern frontend frameworks.
• Product-Minded Leadership: A track record of shipping customer-facing features quickly and iteratively.
• Operational Mindset: Deep experience running production systems with on-call rotations.
• Proven Team Builder: A history of hiring and developing engineers.
• Collaborative Navigator: Skilled at driving alignment across diverse product teams.
• Systems & Cloud Depth: Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure.

Benefits

• Diversity drives innovation and inspires change for the better.
• Building a culture where differences are valued and welcomed.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.