Customer Success Engineer, Sydney

Cribl
Australia
Remote

Who this role is best for

Aimed at experienced technical professionals who can advocate for customers and coordinate cross-functional teams, with a focus on observability and data pipeline management in a remote-first, Sydney-based setting.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in observability and data pipeline management who can advocate for customers and coordinate cross-functional teams
    — “direct experience with Observability, Logs, Metrics, IT Operations and Security with a deep understanding of managing data pipelines through the entire data lifecycle”
  • Individuals who have worked in post-sales roles and demonstrated a passion for driving customer outcomes and value
    — “Minimum of 5 years in a related function with direct customer advocacy and engagement experience in post-sales with passion for customer success and empathy for customer outcomes and value”
  • People who can act as a strategic advisor and bridge technical and executive discussions with a data-driven approach
    — “The CSE must be ready to engage with various technical functions within an organization while also being able to demonstrate the value of Cribl in business discussions with company executives”

Things to consider

  • Candidates must be based in Sydney despite the remote work arrangement
    — “You live in Sydney”
  • This role may require occasional work outside standard hours due to global team coordination
    — “you may be required to occasionally perform duties outside your standard working hours”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in managing data pipelines and delivering value through use-case development
    — “Proven ability to drive continuous product value by developing new use-cases relating to reducing, reusing, enriching, and routing data to achieve customer outcomes”
  • Showcase cross-functional collaboration skills with sales, marketing, and engineering teams
    — “Clear, effective communicator and collaborator working cross-functionally with the Cribl sales, marketing, product, experience, and engineering teams as the voice of the customer”
  • Demonstrate ability to present to executives and manage customer expectations with empathy
    — “Customers first, always mindset with great communication and relationship management skills that can manage customer expectations with empathy”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • driving customer success
  • establishing relationships
  • communicating effectively
  • expanding usage of Cribl solutions
Typical background
5+ years in customer success or related function

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer SuccessTechnical ExpertiseData-driven CommunicationCustomer AdvocacyStakeholder ManagementObservability PipelinesIT OperationsSecurity

Preferred

Energy IndustryGerman Language

Stack & domain

Customer SuccessObservability PipelinesTelemetryData PipelinesIT OperationsSecurityCustomer Success PlatformData-driven MetricsCommunicationCollaborationTechnology

About the role

Original posting from Cribl

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.

Location: Sydney

Why You’ll Love This Role

The Customer Success Engineer (CSE) acts as a trusted advisor for the customer in achieving customer outcomes, value and success with Cribl solutions. This highly technical role needs to coordinate and strategize across several functions to enable customers to realize continuous value. CSEs must be data-driven to drive efficiency in communicating with customers.

The CSE must be ready to engage with various technical functions within an organization while also being able to demonstrate the value of Cribl in business discussions with company executives. The goal is to help our customers become successful and enthusiastic Cribl champions throughout the customer journey.

As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…

Act as a trusted/strategic advisor for customers, driving the entire Customer Success lifecycle from onboarding to expansion

Become the trusted Cribl product expert as customers build out observability pipelines to transform data in their organization

Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and senior management to drive success plans and KPIs at our largest customers

Communicate effectively to our tech touch customers utilizing our customer success platform to automate our ability to respond using data-driven metrics

Drive continued and expanded value by expanding usage of existing use cases and identifying new use cases, teams and data sources to reduce, enrich, and route data

Clear, effective communicator and collaborator working cross-functionally with the Cribl sales, marketing, product, experience, and engineering teams as the voice of the customer

Keep our customers healthy in their customer journey with Cribl to realize value with their purchase and continue to grow as a customer

Continually inspire, mentor, and coach team members as an integral piece of the Customer Experience organization

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

If You’ve Got It - We Want It

Minimum of 5 years in a related function with direct customer advocacy and engagement experience in post-sales with passion for customer success and empathy for customer outcomes and value

Customers first, always mindset with great communication and relationship management skills that can manage customer expectations with empathy.

Customer facing presentation history in program reviews or similar events

Direct experience with Observability, Logs, Metrics, IT Operations and Security with a deep understanding of managing data pipelines through the entire data lifecycle

Proven ability to drive continuous product value by developing new use-cases relating to reducing, reusing, enriching, and routing data to achieve customer outcomes

Quick learner with good technical and problem-solving skills

Bonus Points/Preferred Qualifications:

Direct experience with Cribl products or the Administration of Data Engineering platforms (Splunk, Elastic, Datadog, Snowflake, etc.)

Solid technical understanding of managing customers through Customer Success Platforms such as GainSight

Working knowledge of major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

You live in Sydney

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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. 

Source: Cribl careers

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