Cribl is a leading company in the telemetry infrastructure sector for the AI era, partnering with major enterprises to enhance their IT and Security capabilities. They are seeking a Staff Technical Marketing Engineer to bridge the technical aspects of their products with marketing strategies, focusing on content creation, demo environments, and customer engagement.
Responsibilities:
- Content Creation: Develop and deliver technical assets on products, features, and technologies, including whitepapers, blogs, application notes, and implementation guides
- Demo Environments: Build, maintain, and update real-world technical demo environments consistent with the environments our customers use
- Hands-on Engagement: Create technical workflows that allow customers and prospects to get hands-on experience with Cribl products
- Competitive Analysis: Perform technical testing of competitive products to validate claims and assist in producing internal competitive battle cards
- Product Feedback: Serve as a user advocate by testing new features and providing detailed feedback to Product Management and Engineering during release cycles
- Event Support: Support marketing at tradeshows and events by staffing the booth, running demos, and assisting with technical Q&A
- Technical Agility: Continuously learn new technologies to understand customer needs and ensure technical assets remain relevant and accurate
- We are a remote-first company and work happens across many time-zones - you may be required to occasionally perform duties outside your standard working hours
- Note: This position will likely require 25-30% travel to attend conferences and marketing events
Requirements:
- 7+ 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
- 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
- Experience with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible) is preferred
- 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.)