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Principal Product Security Engineer
Cribl
Executive opportunity brief
The decision in one screen
A compact evidence-first read of compensation, flexibility, mobility and what still needs verification. No universal quality score is used.
Fast read
Opportunity DNA
The role stands out because pay compares strongly with similar current roles. Before going further, confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
Around the 99th percentile within 31 comparable USD salary observations.
No material geography, office-attendance or timezone restriction is visible in the available wording.
The listing does not make the minimum education or experience threshold clear enough yet.
Sponsorship and relocation support are not clear from the current listing.
Part of the application route can be assessed, but the full external process may contain additional steps.
At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.
This fingerprint summarizes what is clear, constrained or still unanswered in the current listing. It is a reading aid, not an overall job score.
Decision evidence check
5 of 5 core facts stated
This checks whether the listing states the facts that commonly change an employment decision. It measures disclosure completeness, not whether the opportunity is good or bad.
Facts already stated
- Compensation
- Work arrangement
- Advertised location
- Application closing time
- Employment type
Core evidence complete
All five core facts are stated. Other details can still matter, so continue with the qualification, mobility, employer and application checks below.
Advertised location is not proof of work authorization, sponsorship, or legal eligibility. Unknown information is not a negative score; verify those questions separately.
Decision levers
What could make or break the fit?
Reasons to look closer
- Pay compares strongly with similar current roles: The annualized midpoint is around the 99th percentile among 31 comparable USD salary observations.
- Location flexibility looks unusually broad: The available wording supports high Remote Freedom without a material geography, office-attendance or timezone restriction showing up.
Trade-offs to weigh
No major trade-off is stated clearly in the information available here. Employment terms outside the listing may still matter.
Questions worth asking before you invest more time
- Confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
- Confirm the actual minimum experience requirement rather than assuming preferred background is mandatory.
- Ask whether visa sponsorship is available before investing significant time in the application.
These questions come from details the listing leaves open. An unanswered point is not treated as a disadvantage.
Opportunity neighborhood
Keep your options open
These live roles sit close enough to this opportunity to make useful comparison points. Look across several employers before deciding what pay, flexibility or access trade-offs you are willing to accept.
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About 32% lower advertised midpoint
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Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
About 18% lower advertised midpoint
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Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
About 38% lower advertised midpoint
Senior Security Analyst
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Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
About 45% lower advertised midpoint
This neighborhood is drawn from current inventory in the same broad occupation. Similarity is based on explicit listing facts; missing details do not count against a job.
Role market context
How much current choice is visible around this kind of work?
This compares the vacancy with current High Paid Job inventory in the broad Cybersecurity roles family. It describes visible choice and disclosure, not future demand or career quality.
200 most recent current roles sampled for the disclosure measures below.
Distinct employers in the bounded current sample, not an estimate of all employers hiring in the market.
Current sampled roles stating at least four of the five Core Decision Facts.
Requires a numeric amount, explicit ISO currency and supported pay period.
Listings with explicit enough remote, hybrid or on-site evidence to classify.
Missing deadline evidence remains unknown and is not interpreted as an open-ended application window.
Currencies with explicit pay evidence in the sample: USD (68) · EUR (5) · GBP (3) · ZAR (1). Raw amounts across different currencies are not compared.
This describes current visible High Paid Job inventory in the same broad occupation family. Percentages use a bounded recent sample and are not a forecast, a complete labor-market census or an employer-quality measure.
Constraint opportunity lab
What changes the size of the current opportunity pool?
Each line applies one stricter evidence-based constraint to the same bounded current role-family sample. It helps you see the trade-off in visible choice without deciding which trade-off is right for you.
Counts only affirmative or possible sponsorship evidence, or relocation explicitly offered. Unknown is not treated as no.
Only same-currency opportunities with usable annualized pay enter this comparison. Other currencies are not converted or treated as lower.
A much stricter subset: only listings with explicit worldwide-remote evidence remain.
Shows the subset with enough stated evidence for a more informed first comparison.
Counts roles explicitly classified as worldwide remote, region-restricted remote or remote with restrictions still unclear.
Requires amount, explicit ISO currency and a supported pay period. Missing pay evidence remains unknown.
Includes roles whose seniority is genuinely unspecified rather than assuming they belong to another level.
Uses only roles with a stated employment type.
These are counterfactual filters over a bounded sample of current HPJ inventory in the same broad occupation family. They show how visible choice changes when one evidence-based constraint is applied; they do not tell you which constraint you should choose or predict hiring outcomes. The calculation uses the 200 most recent current roles from 383 visible roles in this broad family.
Salary transparency context
Is pay disclosure typical for this kind of role?
This listing states usable structured compensation. About 40% of the bounded current role sample does the same.
Compensation counts only when amount, ISO currency and supported pay period are all known.
Pay disclosure is limited in the current role sample.
This employer’s current pay-disclosure rate is broadly similar to the current same-role sample.
This compares salary-disclosure behavior in current visible listings. It does not compare raw salary amounts across currencies, infer undisclosed pay as zero, or rate employer quality.
Private offer & negotiation lab
Turn an offer into evidence, not guesswork
Enter an annual base offer and, if you want, your own target. HPJ compares only within one explicit currency and never chooses a target for you.
Negotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.
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Review the full package · 10 terms
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Usable advertised compensation is available.
Variable compensation is mentioned; verify amount, formula, target and eligibility.
Equity or long-term incentive language is mentioned; verify grant type, vesting and valuation basis.
Retirement or pension benefits are mentioned; verify employer contribution and vesting.
Health-benefit language is mentioned; verify coverage, dependants and employee cost.
Paid-leave language is mentioned; verify the exact entitlement and carry-over rules.
A work-arrangement signal is available; verify schedule details before relying on it.
Relocation support not established
Sponsorship not established
A review cycle is mentioned; verify timing and whether compensation can change at that review.
Questions worth taking into the offer conversation
- If relocation is relevant, what expenses, timing and repayment conditions are covered?
- What exact sponsorship or work-authorization conditions apply to this role?
- When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
Occupation intelligence
What broader career references connect to this role?
HPJ uses broad comparison families for current-market analysis. External taxonomy results are reference candidates for that broad family, not a declaration that this vacancy has been authoritatively classified into a specific occupation.
European occupation references
- cyber incident responder
- cybersecurity risk manager
- ethical hacker
- digital forensics expert
- director of compliance and information security
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
U.S. occupation references
- Information Security Analysts 15-1212.00
- Digital Forensics Analysts 15-1299.06
- Penetration Testers 15-1299.04
- Information Security Engineers 15-1299.05
- Security Management Specialists 13-1199.07
This site incorporates information from O*NET Web Services by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
Career reference research
Skills worth investigating
Official occupational context, paired with exact phrases visible in this vacancy. It is not a skills test or an applicant-fit score.
ESCO · European occupation
cyber incident responder
Usually essential in this ESCO occupation
- attack vectors
- ICT security standards
- GDPR
- security engineeringPhrase in listing
- security threats
- cyber attack counter-measures
- cyber security
Context-dependent ESCO skills
- manage keys for data protection
- consult with business clients
- cloud technologies
- ICT process quality models
- troubleshoot
O*NET · U.S. occupation
Information Security Analysts
O*NET occupation skills
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Complex Problem Solving
- Speaking
- Writing
- Judgment and Decision Making
- MonitoringPhrase in listing
Build my private skill preparation brief Your evidence · Practice · Interview questions
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Useful next question: Which of these occupational reference skills does the hiring manager actually expect for this specific role, and what evidence would demonstrate them?
These skills belong to one reference occupation selected for HPJ’s broad career family, not a verified classification of this vacancy. Text overlap only means a phrase appears in the available listing text; it does not establish an employer requirement, your proficiency, or a qualification gap. A missing mention is unknown, not a deficit.
Adjacent current roles to investigate
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same seniority band · same employment type · similar work-arrangement evidenceSenior Staff Platform Engineer
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same seniority band · same employment type · similar work-arrangement evidenceSenior Fullstack Engineer, FanX AI
SeatGeek · USA
same seniority band · same employment type · similar work-arrangement evidenceAdjacent-family roles are exploration prompts from current HPJ inventory. They are not inferred qualification matches and they do not imply a promotion path.
Career move map
What sits one step away?
This listing is currently read as Senior / lead. Nearby roles one visible seniority step away can help you judge whether to widen the search, stretch upward or compare the responsibilities more carefully.
Broader-entry direction
Security Engineer (100% remoto)
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Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently postedInformation Security Auditor - South Africa
Cognisys · Remote — Worldwide
Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently postedStretch direction
Security Architect
NetBox Labs · USA
Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently posted Advertised midpoint is about 25% lowerApplication Security Engineer, Generative AI
Liftoff · Canada, USA
Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently posted Advertised midpoint is about 26% lowerThese are live roles one visible seniority step away in the same broad occupation family. They can reveal nearby options, but they are not a guaranteed promotion path and do not account for your personal experience.
Skill bridge
What does this role connect to?
AWS is one of the signals this listing shares with skills appearing often across current Cybersecurity roles opportunities.
Skills named in this listing
Shared with the current career sample
- AWS Seen in 51 sampled listings
- Azure Seen in 27 sampled listings
- Cybersecurity Seen in 43 sampled listings
- JavaScript Seen in 10 sampled listings
Combinations also appearing together
- AWS + Python appeared together in 31 sampled listings
- AWS + Azure appeared together in 23 sampled listings
- AWS + Cybersecurity appeared together in 16 sampled listings
Application edge
- If these skills match your background, prepare one concrete example that shows how you used AWS, Azure, and Cybersecurity rather than relying on a keyword-only claim.
If the named skills are genuinely transferable in your own experience, the occupation map also points to adjacent current families worth researching: Software engineering roles and Data & AI roles. This is exploration context, not a qualification match.
Skill signals come from explicit text mentions. A mention is not automatically a requirement, and absence from the current top-skill list does not make a skill rare or unimportant. The current career comparison draws on 110 sampled listings; 105 contain a recognized skill signal.
Application Decision Lab
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AWS
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Azure
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Cybersecurity
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
JavaScript
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Kubernetes
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Python
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity
- Work authorization / sponsorship: If sponsorship or work authorization matters to you, what exact immigration or employer-sponsorship conditions apply to this role?
- Application process: What interview, assessment, portfolio, reference or screening stages are part of the hiring process?
Decision analysis
What the listing really tells you
The headline alone does not tell the whole story for Principal Product Security Engineer at Cribl. The clearest decision context comes from pay has a useful comparison point, the location rules are clear enough to judge, and the application route gives a few useful clues.
Pay has a useful comparison point
The annualized midpoint sits near the 99th percentile within 31 comparable USD salary observations. Treat that as current advertised-pay context rather than a forecast of take-home or total compensation.
The location rules are clear enough to judge
The work-location pattern is “Highly location-flexible”, with Remote Freedom at 96/100.
The application route gives a few useful clues
Provider-mediated application path. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.
Source continuity adds useful context
1 recent enabled source can currently renew this vacancy across 1 source classes. That improves traceability, although it does not verify the employer itself.
How this analysis is assembled
This read combines the structured details currently available for pay, flexibility, qualifications, mobility, application effort and source continuity. Missing facts are left open for you to verify.
Analysis evidence coverage
How much analysis can the current evidence support?
Uses the explainable High Pay Score within the job’s current occupation/seniority/currency comparison sample.
Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.
The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
The source posting date is today.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.
Decision checklist
What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?
This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.
Supported strengths
- Advertised pay is above much of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
- The available work-location evidence indicates strong location flexibility.
Visible cautions
- Some compensation may be variable or performance-based. Confirm the guaranteed base amount before comparing headline pay.
- The role may involve non-standard hours or on-call work.
Still unknown
- Visa sponsorship is not established by the available listing data.
Pay vs. barriers
Strong pay; barrier efficiency remains uncertain
Pay compares strongly, but the listing does not provide enough detail about barriers or access routes to call the role unusually accessible.
Comparable disclosed-pay evidence places this job at about 99 / 100 within its current occupation/seniority sample.
- Education requirement is not established.
- Required prior-experience level is not established.
This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.
Beyond the headline
Strong multidimensional signals
The role combines a strong current pay position with at least one clear non-pay advantage. Whether that makes it a better choice depends on your priorities.
The annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 99% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
The observable Remote Freedom evidence is strong and contains few explicit restriction signals.
Still check: The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.
Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.
Explainable opportunity highlight
Why this opportunity stands out
These are supported signals from the current listing and comparison sample—not a guarantee that this is the best job for you.
Its annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 99% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
The source provides structured salary information with a comparatively focused range, improving the usefulness of pay comparisons.
The observable work-location signals indicate unusually strong location flexibility.
The source posting date is today.
Compensation intelligence
How competitive is this pay?
Exceptional pay in current sample
The annualized midpoint is above the 75th percentile boundary of the current comparable sample.
The highlighted band is the middle 50% of the current comparable sample after the outlier guard. The dark marker is this job’s annualized salary midpoint.
Why this analysis?
- This score reflects the current advertised-pay distribution for comparable active jobs in the same currency. It measures pay position, not overall job quality.
- Salary confidence: High. The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
- Range quality: Focused salary range.
Employer compensation communication
Pay transparency at Cribl
Mixed current pay transparency
This score uses the employer’s current visible listings and combines how often pay is disclosed with how useful those ranges are. Bonus, equity and benefit mentions are shown separately and do not raise the score.
This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.
Current employer intelligence
Cribl — current opportunity snapshot
Employer Evidence Profile
How often this employer’s current visible sampled vacancies state decision-critical information. These percentages describe evidence coverage, not employer quality.
Current sampled listings with advertised compensation evidence.
Current sampled listings whose work arrangement is clearer than unknown.
Current sampled listings with a supported country signal.
Current sampled listings with an explicit closing time.
Current sampled listings with a usable posting date.
Current sampled listings that explicitly indicate confirmed, possible or unavailable sponsorship evidence.
Current sampled listings with an explicit relocation signal.
Low coverage means the current visible listings state the information less often. It does not prove that the employer lacks the policy, benefit or support.
Common current occupation families: Sales (15) · Customer success (5) · Executive (3)
Visible seniority mix: Mid-career (2) · Senior / lead (11) · Leadership (15)
Current employment-type mix: Full time (35)
Most visible hiring countries in this sample: United States (8) · United Kingdom (6) · Australia (2) · Japan (1)
Other current roles from this employer
Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Australia
Senior / lead · Region-restricted remoteCommercial Sales Representative
USA
Senior / lead · Region-restricted remoteRegional Sales Manager, Singapore
APAC
Leadership · Region-restricted remoteRegional Sales Manager, Japan (Enterprise)
Japan
Leadership · Remote — restrictions unclearThese are other current vacancies visible from the same employer, not endorsements or evidence of future hiring plans.
Current disclosed salary medians by currency
- USD 186,250 median · 10 disclosed salaries
- EUR 109,700 median · 5 disclosed salaries
Questions worth asking this employer
- What compensation range applies to this role, and which parts of total compensation are fixed versus variable?
- If work authorization matters to you, what sponsorship policy applies to this specific role and location?
- If a move is required, is relocation assistance available for this position?
- What is the expected application and interview timeline if the listing does not state a closing date?
These questions are prompted by missing or thin evidence in the employer’s current visible vacancies. Missing evidence is not treated as a negative judgement.
This employer snapshot uses the employer’s current visible listings. Remote and sponsorship rates use only vacancies with explicit evidence, while missing information stays unknown. Salary medians are shown separately by currency and need at least five disclosed salaries. Zero confirmed sponsorship means none was explicitly found in this sample, not that sponsorship is unavailable.
This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.
Work-location intelligence
Remote Freedom
Highly location-flexible
Why this score?
- The source describes the role as open worldwide or globally.
Flexibility signals detected
- Worldwide or global remote eligibility is explicitly indicated.
Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.
International applicant intelligence
Visa & relocation signals
Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough sponsorship statement.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.
Tradeoff check
What’s the catch?
These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:
- Some compensation may be variable or performance-based. Confirm the guaranteed base amount before comparing headline pay.
- The role may involve non-standard hours or on-call work.
Current alternatives
Better-paying alternatives
These current roles show a materially higher annualized salary midpoint in the same broad occupation and currency. Similar seniority, country, work arrangement, employment type and recency are preferred where possible; higher pay alone does not make an alternative a better fit.
Security Engineer, Agent Security
OpenAI · USA
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Similar work-location arrangement · Same employment type
Security Engineer, Detection and Response
OpenAI · USA
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Similar work-location arrangement · Same employment type
Check: Seniority is not explicit in the alternative listing.
Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security
OpenAI · USA
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Similar work-location arrangement · Same employment type
Check: Seniority is not explicit in the alternative listing.
Alternatives are drawn from the current inventory rather than presented as application recommendations. A pay difference needs to be meaningful—about 3% or more at the midpoint—and different currencies are not compared.
Application-path intelligence
What can we see about the application process?
Provider-mediated application path
The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.
Current destination: himalayas.app · HTTPS
No additional required application step is clear in the available listing text. This does not mean the external application is one-click or friction-free.
Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.
Application safety context
Application safety check
Basic application-safety context available
The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.
Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording
Observable transport-safety signals
- The available application destination uses HTTPS.
Before you share money or sensitive information
- Confirm the vacancy on the employer’s official careers site when practical, especially if a recruiter contacts you outside the listed application path.
- Check that recruiter email domains and application destinations are consistent with the employer or an identifiable recruiting provider.
- Do not pay application, processing, training or equipment fees merely to be considered for a job.
- Do not send cryptocurrency, gift cards, online-banking credentials or PINs as part of an application.
- Treat unusually fast offers or interviews conducted only through informal messaging channels as reasons to verify the employer independently.
This is a limited safety screen, not employer verification and not a fraud determination. Never send money, cryptocurrency, passwords or sensitive banking credentials merely because a listing appears on a job platform.
Original listing details
The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.
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.
Why You’ll Love This Role
Cribl is looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical authority at the intersection of application, cloud, and FedRAMP environment security. You will help secure Cribl’s cloud-native, customer-managed, and hybrid products as they process high-volume data for some of the world’s largest organizations.
As a Principal engineer, impact is defined by reach. You will set long-term direction across teams, resolve critical and ambiguous security problems, advise Engineering and Product leaders, and turn security requirements into secure designs, production-ready patterns, automation, and verified outcomes. This is not a documentation-only compliance role: you will work with Engineering, SRE, Cloud Operations, Compliance, and Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) partners to make regulatory commitments real in product architecture and day-to-day operations.
This is a remote, hands-on individual-contributor role within Engineering. You will lead through expertise and influence, mentor engineers and security partners, and create durable systems that reduce risk while making the secure path easier.
As An Active Member Of Our Team, You Will…
- Set long-term product and cloud security direction across multiple teams, shaping roadmaps, standards, secure-by-default patterns, and risk-informed design and release decisions.
- Lead Product Security Reviews for distributed, multi-tenant SaaS and customer-managed products, including architecture and design review, threat modeling, abuse-case analysis, targeted secure code review, and security test planning.
- Translate risk into concrete engineering requirements, mitigations, tests, and secure defaults; stay engaged through implementation and independently verify that the intended risk reduction was achieved.
- Serve as a principal cloud security authority across IAM and workload identity, organization and account boundaries, network exposure, KMS and encryption, secrets, logging and detection, containers and Kubernetes, serverless services, infrastructure as code, hardening, and data isolation.
- Lead the Product Security component of FedRAMP engineering. Translate FedRAMP Moderate and NIST SP 800-53 control intent into sustainable technical controls and defensible evidence, and partner on authorization-boundary and significant-change decisions, continuous monitoring, vulnerability and change management, POA&M and deviation remediation, incident response, vendor assessments, and 3PAO or assessor interactions.
- Investigate ambiguous signals and vulnerabilities from bug bounty, application and supply-chain scanners, penetration tests, cloud detections, and internal reports; determine exploitability, exposure, and impact; coordinate remediation; validate fixes and bypasses; and hunt for variants and root causes.
- Evolve scalable, risk-adaptive vulnerability management using exposure, exploitability, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities signals, asset criticality, customer impact, and regulatory timelines,not CVSS alone.
- Build and operate durable security capabilities and developer paved roads across CI/CD, SAST, SCA, secrets, infrastructure as code, containers, cloud posture, and testing. Automate repeatable work while preserving explicit human judgment for consequential security decisions.
- Scope and oversee external penetration tests, purple-team exercises, and relevant security vendors; ensure findings become owned, verified engineering outcomes; and provide evidence-based input to build, retain, replace, or retire decisions.
- Lead multi-team work through uncertainty and high-stakes situations, making clear tradeoffs among security, reliability, delivery, customer impact, and compliance while acting with appropriate urgency.
- Communicate complex risks, options, uncertainty, and recommendations in direct, audience-appropriate terms for engineers, senior leaders, customers, assessors, and external partners; represent Cribl credibly when needed.
- Multiply the team by mentoring Product Security engineers, security champions, and engineering partners; create standards, runbooks, automation, and continuity plans that prevent critical capabilities from depending on one person.
- Evaluate and responsibly apply emerging technologies, including AI-assisted security engineering, with measurable outcomes, rigorous verification, secure operating boundaries, and clear human accountability.
- This position will require stand-by, on-call, or off-hours duties.
If You’ve Got It - We Want It
- Typically 10+ years of relevant software security, security engineering, or software engineering experience,or equivalent demonstrated scope and impact,including substantial hands-on Application Security or Product Security and cloud security work.
- Experience securing AI or agentic systems and applying AI responsibly to security engineering workflows.
- A Principal-level track record of setting technical direction across teams, leading multi-quarter initiatives, resolving ambiguous critical problems, and influencing senior Engineering and Product leaders without direct authority.
- Deep, hands-on AWS and Azure security experience in production SaaS or cloud-native systems, including identity and authorization, network controls, encryption and key management, secrets, logging and detection, containers or Kubernetes, serverless services, infrastructure as code, and multi-tenant data isolation.
- Direct experience implementing or operating product and cloud security controls in a FedRAMP-authorized or FedRAMP-bound environment. You understand NIST SP 800-53 control intent and have supported technical control implementation and evidence, continuous monitoring, vulnerability and change management, POA&M or deviation remediation, and assessor interactions.
- Expertise leading security design reviews and threat models for complex applications, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud architectures, with the judgment to turn findings into practical countermeasures and risk-informed release recommendations.
- Strong knowledge of web and application vulnerabilities, exploit techniques, OWASP guidance, authentication and authorization protocols, cryptography, common network protocols, and secure cloud operating models.
- Ability to read production code and build maintainable automation in JavaScript or TypeScript, Python, Go, or a comparable language; willingness to work directly with Engineering to implement and verify security improvements.
- Hands-on vulnerability-response experience, including exploitability analysis, root-cause and variant analysis, remediation design, fix and bypass validation, stakeholder coordination, and incident support.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to make complex risk and tradeoffs clear to engineers, executives, customers, assessors, and external partners.
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
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Preferred qualifications
- Experience securing enterprise data platforms, observability systems, high-volume data pipelines, agents, or customer-managed and hybrid software.
- Experience with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP Moderate/High, NIST 800-53.
- Experience building developer security platforms, secure-by-default libraries, policy-as-code, or automated guardrails across SAST, SCA, DAST, software supply chain, containers, and cloud posture.
- Public security contributions such as open-source work, published research, CVE credits, standards participation, conference talks, or other demonstrated thought leadership.
- Relevant credentials such as AWS Certified Security – Specialty, CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, GIAC, or OSCP; demonstrated practical impact matters more than certifications.
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
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