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Customer Success Engineer, Federal

Cribl
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 1/4/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/18/2026
Cribl does differently.

What does that mean? It means we are a serious company that doesn’t take itself too seriously; and we’re looking for people who love to get stuff done, and laugh a bit along the way. We’re growing rapidly - looking for collaborative, curious, and motivated team members who are passionate about putting customers first. As a remote-first company we believe in empowering our employees to do their best work, wherever they are.

As the data engine for IT and Security many of the biggest names in the most demanding industries trust Cribl to solve their most pressing data needs. Ready to do the best work of your career? Join the herd and unlock your opportunity.

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


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.
  • Local to the greater Washington D.C. area
  • 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
  • Willingness to travel as needed


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)
  • Good jokes, or maybe better, bad jokes
  • Must be able to obtain a US Security Clearance
  • Top Secret or TS/SCI Clearance


Salary Range ($110K - $180k)

The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location. The salary offered within the range described will be based on the individual candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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), equity, and eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus.

Bring Your Whole Self

Diversity drives innovation, enables better decisions to support our customers, and inspires change for the better. We’re building a culture where differences are valued and welcomed, and we work together to bring out the best in each other. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Interested in joining the Cribl herd? Learn more about the smartest, funniest, most passionate goats you’ll ever meet at cribl.io/about-us.

Salary : $110,000 - $180,000

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