Staff Technical Marketing Engineer

Cribl · Enterprise · CA · Marketing

This role is for a Staff Technical Marketing Engineer at Cribl, a company providing telemetry infrastructure for the AI era. The role focuses on bridging technical product capabilities with marketing messaging by creating technical content, maintaining demo environments, and visualizing product value for customers. It involves hands-on engagement, competitive analysis, and providing product feedback. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in technical marketing or related fields, with a strong understanding of observability, security software, distributed systems, and scripting languages. Experience with cloud platforms, containers, and search languages is also required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and deliver technical assets on products, features, and technologies, including whitepapers, blogs, application notes, and implementation guides.
  2. Build, maintain, and update real-world technical demo environments consistent with the environments our customers use.
  3. Create technical workflows that allow customers and prospects to get hands-on experience with Cribl products.
  4. Perform technical testing of competitive products to validate claims and assist in producing internal competitive battle cards.
  5. Serve as a user advocate by testing new features and providing detailed feedback to Product Management and Engineering during release cycles.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years in the software field as a technical marketing engineer, sales engineer, systems administrator, or support engineer.
  • Experience in the observability or security software space.
  • Strong understanding of distributed applications and system architecture.
  • Proficiency with containers (Docker/Kubernetes).
  • Working knowledge of AWS (Azure and Google Cloud Platform is a plus).
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python, NodeJS, Go (Golang), or TypeScript, and a strong working knowledge of regular expressions.
  • Familiarity with code versioning (Github/Bitbucket) and CI/CD concepts.
  • Familiarity with search languages (Kusto, Splunk SPL, Elastic/OpenSearch Query DSL).
  • Experience using observability tools (Loki/Grafana, Datadog) or SIEM products (Splunk, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, etc.).
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical features into business value.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple content projects simultaneously.

Nice to have

  • Experience with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible) is preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ in the software field as a technical marketing engineer, sales engineer, systems administrator, or support engineer.