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Sr. Engineering Manager, SDET
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- Remote from
- USA
- Salary
- USD 225k–270k / yr
- Department
- QA & Testing
- Employment
- Full Time
- Experience
- Senior
- Published
- Apply before
- 7 Nov 2026
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The role, at a glance.
Cribl is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a remote-first, cross-functional SDET organization responsible for product quality and reliability. The role owns quality strategy, metrics, test automation, CI stability, defect prevention, root-cause analysis, and end-to-end delivery pipeline improvements. It requires hands-on technical leadership across SaaS and customer-managed deployments, with emphasis on AI-developed testing and agentic workflows. The manager will partner closely with product and engineering leaders while coaching and growing a distributed team of test engineers. The role may require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours support.
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I would begin by mapping critical customer workflows, deployment differences, reliability risks, and existing quality signals. I would define a risk-based test pyramid, consistent release gates, and shared metrics such as escape rate, flaky-test rate, pipeline health, and time to defect detection. I would then prioritize common automation platforms while preserving product-specific coverage where deployment architecture differs.
I would use a balanced set of leading and lagging indicators: CI pass and stability rates, test execution duration, automation coverage for critical paths, defect escape rate, mean time to detect and resolve issues, rollback frequency, and release lead time. Metrics should be segmented by product and severity, reviewed regularly with engineering and product leadership, and tied to specific improvement actions rather than used as isolated scorecards.
I would first instrument failures to distinguish product defects, environmental issues, test-data problems, and nondeterministic test behavior. The team would establish ownership, quarantine policies with expiration dates, reliability SLAs, and a prioritized backlog for eliminating flakes. I would also improve isolation, deterministic test data, environment provisioning, and parallelization so the pipeline becomes both trustworthy and fast.
I would start with controlled use cases such as test-case generation, failure clustering, and regression-test selection, while retaining human review for test quality and risk-sensitive coverage. We would measure generated-test value through defect discovery, maintainability, execution reliability, and false-positive rates. Clear guardrails for data access, code review, reproducibility, and observability would ensure automation accelerates quality without weakening engineering accountability.
I would set clear outcomes, ownership boundaries, technical standards, and operating rhythms while giving engineers autonomy in execution. Regular one-on-ones, transparent roadmaps, design reviews, mentoring plans, and cross-functional demos would keep the team connected and visible. I would develop engineers through stretch ownership in automation architecture, quality metrics, incident analysis, and partnerships with product engineering.
About this role.
Join the company that’s building the telemetry infrastructure for the AI era. At Cribl, we partner with IT and Security teams at many of the world’s biggest enterprises, including half of the Fortune 100, to bridge the gap between AI ambition and infrastructure reality. As the AI Platform for Telemetry, we give customers the choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze telemetry for both humans and agents, so they can build what’s next.
We’re one of the fastest‑growing private companies and a leading player in a massive, fast‑moving market. With a global workforce, we’re remote‑first and grounded in a simple idea: software is a people business. Cribl is the place where curious, collaborative people can do their best work, grow fast, and bring their full selves to the herd.
Why You’ll Love This Role
We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a remote-first, cross-functional team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) responsible for the quality and reliability of all Cribl products. This is a hands-on leadership role in ensuring that quality is built-in from the start of the software development lifecycle, implementing test strategy from design to release with agentic workflows. You’ll play a key role in driving engineering excellence, delivering high-quality products to our customers.
As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…
- Own the quality strategy across Cribl products and communicate metrics for data-driven prioritization of the team’s roadmap
- Lead continuous improvement in test automation, CI stability, defect prevention, root-cause analysis, and escape-rate reduction.
- Continuously optimize end to end pipelines for both quality and velocity, removing bottlenecks for both people and agentic workflows
- Foster a “customer first” mindset by continuously running failure analysis to close the testing gap with customer deployments
- Establish a strong partnership with product management and engineering managers to ensure quality standards are implemented from the start
- Coach, mentor, and grow a remote-first team of exceptional test engineers focusing on agentic workflows
- This position may include stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties
If You’ve Got It – We Want It
- Hands-on experience in establishing testing strategy and defining quality metrics for products that will be deployed in both SaaS as well as customer managed environments
- Thorough understanding of the SDLC and the changes required for agentic development
- Strong understanding of test architecture, automation, CI/CD, observability, release management, and root-cause analysis.
- Experience with AI-developed tests and workflows
- BS CS/EE or equivalent practical experience with 10+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years in a technical leadership role
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The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location and will be based on the individual candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
In addition to base salary, for sales and some sales-adjacent roles, employees are eligible to earn incentive compensation (commission). For all other roles, employees are eligible to participate in the Cribl Corporate Bonus Program.
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), and equity.
Base Salary Range
$225,000—$270,000 USD
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.
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