Sr. Engineering Manager, SDET

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Why You’ll Love This Role We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a remote-first, cross-functional team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) responsible for the quality and reliability of all Cribl products. This is a hands-on leadership role in ensuring that quality is built-in from the start of the software development lifecycle, implementing test strategy from design to release with agentic workflows. You’ll play a key role in driving engineering excellence, delivering high-quality products to our customers. As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will… - Own the quality strategy across Cribl products and communicate metrics for data-driven prioritization of the team’s roadmap - Lead continuous improvement in test automation, CI stability, defect prevention, root-cause analysis, and escape-rate reduction. - Continuously optimize end to end pipelines for both quality and velocity, removing bottlenecks for both people and agentic workflows - Foster a "customer first" mindset by continuously running failure analysis to close the testing gap with customer deployments - Establish a strong partnership with product management and engineering managers to ensure quality standards are implemented from the start - Coach, mentor, and grow a remote-first team of exceptional test engineers focusing on agentic workflows - This position may include stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties If You’ve Got It - We Want It - Hands-on experience in establishing testing strategy and defining quality metrics for products that will be deployed in both SaaS as well as customer managed environments - Thorough understanding of the SDLC and the changes required for agentic development - Strong understanding of test architecture, automation, CI/CD, observability, release management, and root-cause analysis. - Experience with AI-developed tests and workflows - BS CS/EE or equivalent practical experience with 10+ years of industry experience, including 4+ years in a technical leadership role #LI-AM1 #LI-Remote