Staff Data Engineer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $170k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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Cribl

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

☁️ SaaS

SaaS • Cloud

Cribl is a company providing a cloud-based service, allowing users to manage and analyze their data through a web application. The service includes features for user accounts and integration with Google for authentication.

📋 Description

• Serve as a technical lead for the Data Engineering team and own architecture and design decisions for core data systems • Partner with Data Analysts, SREs, IT Engineers, and business teams to clarify requirements, validate outputs, and communicate risks, tradeoffs, and timelines • Own and operate Cribl’s self-hosted Prefect orchestration platform, including operational hygiene, upgrades, workers, and cost/footprint tradeoffs • Own Cribl’s Snowflake environment, including data modeling, performance, cost optimization, RBAC/permissions design, tooling, and governance • Build, operate, and monitor data pipelines, ingestion services, integrations, and the warehouse • Advance the dbt practice, including the dbt Fusion migration, and manage warehouse cost and performance at scale • Develop cloud-native AWS services and infrastructure, including event-driven ingestion, APIs, upsert patterns, package reuse, and infrastructure as code • Advance Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code practices with reusable modules, deployment patterns, CI integration, and operational hygiene • Partner with the Data Engineering manager to set technical direction, roadmap, standards, and architectural tradeoffs • Mentor and grow junior and mid-level data engineers through code review, pairing, design feedback, and coaching • Support data science and agentic initiatives by preparing model-ready datasets, exposing features, and integrating AI/LLM workflows into production • Contribute to secure, compliance-minded engineering practices with IT/Security • Occasionally perform duties outside standard working hours due to global time zones

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in Snowflake, including advanced data modeling, query and warehouse performance tuning, cost management, and security/RBAC design • Experience as a tech lead or staff-level engineer setting direction, driving architecture, and delivering complex systems across a team • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration across data, engineering, and business teams • Track record of mentoring junior and mid-level engineers through coaching, review, and pairing • Strong Python and SQL fundamentals with solid ELT patterns and data modeling experience • Hands-on experience operating self-hosted or self-managed orchestration; Prefect strongly preferred, with Airflow/Dagster on own infrastructure acceptable • Comfort owning orchestration upgrades, workers, and operational footprint • Hands-on AWS and infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform or equivalent • Experience building cloud applications or backend services, including APIs, ingestion services, and event-driven workflows • Production-grade engineering practices including logging, alerting, versioning, and CI/CD • Fluency building with AI-assisted development platforms such as Claude Code • Ability to occasionally perform duties outside standard working hours across time zones

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Short-term disability insurance • Life insurance • Paid holidays • Paid time off • Fertility treatment benefit • 401(k) • Equity • Cribl Corporate Bonus Program • Remote-first work arrangement