Manager - Software Engineering (Product Platform IAM)

Why You'll Love This Role

As the Engineering Manager for the Platform IAM Team at Cribl, you'll lead the team building core of our identity platform. The IAM team supports the authentication and authorization requirements needed by both enterprise customers as well as internal engineering teams within Cribl.

You'll work with a driven team that balances technical excellence with operational discipline. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll help shape design decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure we deliver robust distributed systems that run at scale in production. If you enjoy building high-performing teams and solving hard problems, this role is for you.

As An Active Member Of This Team, You Will…

• Build and grow exceptional teams - Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent while keeping a high bar.

• Deliver with excellence - Drive projects from design to production, with a focus on on-time delivery and high quality.

• Navigate complexity - Collaborate across engineering, product, SRE, and architecture teams to align priorities, clarify requirements, and deliver outcomes.

• Champion operational excellence - Establish a culture of observability, reliability, and quality. Ensure systems are built with monitoring, alerting, and operational discipline baked in.

• Stay technical - Provide hands-on code reviews, architecture guidance, and debugging support. Jump into production issues when needed and identify design problems early.

• Note: This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties to support our managed product uptime.

If You've Got It - We Want It

• 2+ years as an EM or Technical Lead - Experience managing high-performing teams, specifically those focused on product-facing platforms or SaaS foundations.

• Strong technical foundation - Prior experience as a Tech Lead or Staff+ engineer building backend systems. You can debug production issues, review complex code, and make sound architectural decisions.

• Operational mindset - Deep experience running production systems with on-call rotations. You know how to build observable, reliable systems and have managed on-call as an EM.

• Proven team builder - Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers across all levels.

• Collaborative leader - Skilled at working across teams, driving alignment in ambiguous situations, and communicating technical tradeoffs to diverse audiences.

• Systems depth - Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, scalable and highly available system  design, with a built-in curiosity to go deeper into the system to understand the “why”.

• IAM experience - Experience building Identity and Access Management systems is not required, but is a great bonus!

Salary Range ($215,000 - $250,000)

The salary for this role is dependent on geographic location. The salary offered within the range described will be based on the individual candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  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), equity, and eligibility for a discretionary company-wide bonus.

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