Customer Success Engineer, Federal

Cribl · Enterprise · Washington, WA · Customer Experience

This role is a Customer Success Engineer for Cribl, a company providing telemetry infrastructure for the AI era. The role focuses on partnering with IT and Security teams in federal and public sector organizations to help them manage and analyze telemetry data, enabling them to build AI solutions. The engineer acts as a trusted advisor, product expert, and customer advocate, driving value realization and identifying new use cases for Cribl's platform. While the company operates in the AI space and its product is positioned as an 'AI Platform for Telemetry', the core function of this role is customer success and technical advisory, not direct AI/ML model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a trusted/strategic advisor for customers, driving the entire Customer Success lifecycle from onboarding to expansion
  2. Become the trusted Cribl product expert as customers build out observability pipelines to transform data in their organization
  3. Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and senior management to drive success plans and KPIs at our largest customers
  4. Communicate effectively to our tech touch customers utilizing our customer success platform to automate our ability to respond using data-driven metrics
  5. 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

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • Must be able to obtain a US Security Clearance

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • GovCloud or FEDRAMP Experience
  • Must be able to obtain a US Security Clearance