Staff Data Engineer
CriblObservability company
United States$170,000 - $220,000 USDLead
GV (Google Ventures)
CapitalG
IVP
CRV
Tiger Global Management
GIC Private
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead data engineering initiatives, own data systems architecture, and mentor engineers.
- •Join Cribl as a Staff Data Engineer, a technical leader shaping the future of the company's data infrastructure.
- •You will drive the systems powering analytics, data science, and operational decision-making, working at the intersection of the modern data stack, cloud engineering, and AI workflows.
- •Key Responsibilities Serve as a technical lead for the Data Engineering team, owning architecture and design decisions for core data systems.
- •Partner with stakeholders across functions to clarify requirements, validate outputs, and communicate risks.
- •Own and operate the self-hosted orchestration platform (Prefect) and Cribl's Snowflake environment.
- •Build, operate, and monitor the core data tech stack, ensuring data accuracy and timeliness.
- •Advance the modern data stack, including dbt practices and warehouse cost/performance.
- •Requirements Deep expertise in Snowflake, including data modeling, performance tuning, and cost management.
- •Demonstrated technical leadership experience setting direction and driving complex systems.
- •Strong Python and SQL fundamentals with solid ELT patterns and data modeling experience.
- •Hands-on experience operating self-hosted orchestration (Prefect preferred) and AWS infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
- •Experience building cloud-native services and backend applications.
Required skills
SnowflakedbtAWSPythonSQLTerraformPrefectTechnical Leadership
Nice-to-have skills
JavaScriptBashREST API
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, short-term disability, life insurance, paid holidays, paid time off, fertility treatment benefit, 401(k), equity
Tech stack
SnowflakeSQLdbtAWSTerraformPrefectPythonJavaScriptBashREST API