Sr. Staff Engineer, Security AI-SOC

If You’ve Got It - We Want It

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience (Master’s preferred) with 12+ years of experience building scale production software.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering initiatives and directly building AI SOC, SOAR, or post-detection automation capabilities at scale (e.g., automated triage, multi-agent investigation systems, or response platforms).
• Deep, practical experience building and deploying production-grade AI systems—utilizing LLM orchestration frameworks, agent swarms, vector databases/embeddings, dynamic tool calling, and RAG architectures in enterprise software.
• Track record of designing and operating scalable, low-latency distributed systems capable of handling asynchronous event processing and complex, multi-system workflow state machines.
• Deep understanding of the security analyst workflow and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
• Strong experience designing robust, extensible API frameworks to interface with third-party security platforms (EDR, Identity Providers, Cloud Infrastructure, SIEM/SOAR).
• Proven capability to lead ambiguous, highly autonomous initiatives from abstract concept to production rollout.
• High ownership mindset with a bias toward quality, performance, and simplicity
• Clear, effective communicator—able to explain complex technical ideas to engineers, partners, and customers in remote, distributed teams
• Direct experience building autonomous agent frameworks for security context.
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, NodeJS, or Go/Python in enterprise systems.
• Background in graph databases or contextual graph models used to represent identities, endpoints, and threat histories.
• Active open-source contributions in the AI, agentic automation, or security space.
• No fear! Speak your mind, foster open debate, and bring a low-ego mindset.
• Good jokes—or better yet, bad jokes.
• A healthy appreciation for goats
• #LI-EL1 #LI-Remote
• 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$230,000—$280,000 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.
• 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.
• 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.