Cribl

Sales Engineer, Eastern Canada (Strategic)

Cribl$175K — $210K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in a technical customer-facing role, preferably in Sales Engineering or Solutions Architecture.
  • Hands-on experience with security analytics workflows in environments like SOC, detection engineering, or incident response.
  • Strong knowledge of SIEM and security analytics platforms.
  • Proven ability to lead technical discovery and translate requirements into effective solution designs.
  • Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
  • Experience running evaluations, POVs, or POCs in various environments including cloud and hybrid systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead discovery to assess customer environments and identify their specific needs.
  • Design tailored solutions that leverage the platform to meet business objectives.
  • Manage the end-to-end execution of proof of value (POV) and proof of concept (POC) initiatives.
  • Build trust with security professionals by understanding their workflows and challenges.
  • Address technical inquiries and objections with confidence, engaging specialists when necessary.
  • Collaborate with sales leadership on strategic planning and technical strategies for securing deals.
  • Expand relationships within client organizations, cultivating multiple champions for our offerings.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment offering flexibility in work location.
  • Generous benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Paid holidays and substantial paid time off for work-life balance.
  • Access to a fertility treatment benefit to support employees' family planning.
  • 401(k) plan with corporate matching to help secure employees' financial futures.
  • Equity participation to share in the company's growth and success.
Full Job Description
Location: Toronto or Ottawa Why You'll Love This Role As a Solutions Engineer, you'll help customers solve hard data problems in complex environments, with real depth in how security teams work. You will help customers understand their environment, define the right success criteria, and build confidence in an approach that works in practice rather than on a slide. That takes both sides of the job: leading discovery and connecting technical capability to business value, and bringing genuine depth in data architecture, integrations, and environment design. As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will... • Lead technical discovery to understand a customer's environment, requirements, constraints, and success criteria. • Design customer-specific solutions that combine parts of the platform to fit real architectures and business outcomes. • Own POV and POC execution end to end, keeping the evaluation tied to agreed success criteria. • Build credibility directly with security practitioners, including analysts, detection engineers, and security operations leaders, in conversations about their workflow and not just their data pipeline. • Handle most technical questions and objections yourself, pulling in specialists for edge cases and the hardest evaluations. • Partner with your Regional Sales Manager on account strategy, opportunity planning, and technical win strategy. • Build technical champions inside accounts, and expand relationships beyond the first champion when the decision requires it. • Run the technical sales process with discipline, including CRM hygiene, MEDDPICC alignment, milestones, and follow-through. • Contribute your expertise to other teammates on your regional SE team.Up to 30% Travel • 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 • Security depth - For this opening, we are prioritizing security analyst workflow depth. (If you feel like you are a strong candidate with Observability or Telemetry Engineering depth, we'd still like to speak with you.) • Hands-on experience in or experience working with a security analytics workflow, such as a SOC, detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response, or experience supporting those teams as a technical resource. • Working knowledge of SIEM and security analytics platforms and how security teams use them day to day, including where those workflows break down. • Credibility you can point to: specific practitioner examples and an industry point of view. • Consultative and solution skills • Experience leading technical discovery and translating requirements into solution designs. • Ability to design a well-architected system without being the expert in every part of it. • Ability to learn the basics of unfamiliar technology quickly. • Clear explanation of technical tradeoffs to practitioners and decision-makers alike, including handling objections. • Good judgment under ambiguity. • Leverages AI to maximize effectiveness in role • Is Customer First Always-- thats our #1 value here and we live by it • Foundational technical fluency: • Senior-level experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or a similar customer-facing technical role. • A working foundation in data movement, telemetry pipelines, logging, networking, or data architecture. Depth is welcome, but it is not what we optimize for and it can be built here. • Experience running hands-on evaluations, POVs, or POCs in cloud, hybrid, and enterprise environments. #LI-JK1 #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 $175,000-$210,000 CAD

About Cribl

Cribl is a provider of observability pipeline software. The company offers a range of products, including LogStream, a platform for processing and routing log data. Cribl serves clients in a variety of industries, including finance, healthcare, and technology. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Cribl
Size
50 employees
Industry
Net Income
$1 million
Founded
2017
5 Year Trend
+50%
Revenue
$5 million
NASDAQ

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