AI-Driven Global Backbone Network Architect

CrowdStrike Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Paid parental leave

Professional development opportunities

Employee networks & volunteer programs

World-class office amenities

Great Place to Work certification

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking a senior network architect to own the IP and optical backbone for our global operations. You will define multi-year roadmaps, traffic engineering, capacity planning, and demand forecasting to scale the network for rapid growth.

You will lead platform selection for routing and optical hardware, collaborate with vendor teams, and drive automation and telemetry strategies. Mentoring engineers and guiding IaC adoption will be core to this role in a 24x7 on-call context.

Qualifications

• 12+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale backbone networks.
• Deep expertise in IP/MPLS core technologies: IS-IS, MP-BGP, SR-MPLS/SRv6, VRFs and MPLS-TE.
• Cloud networking experience across AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure and neoclouds.

Responsibilities

• Own platform selection for routing and optical hardware, coordinating with vendor engineering.
• Influence roadmaps and engage executive stakeholders across datacenter, app and business teams.
• Lead network automation and IaC strategy (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, GitOps) and telemetry/analytics initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and set corporate standards; serve as senior escalation resource in 24x7 operations.

Skills

backbone network design

IP/MPLS core

SR-MPLS/SRv6

optical transport

cloud networking

IaC & automation

AI in network ops

FedRAMP environments

vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / MIS or related field

Job description

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking a senior network architect to own the IP and optical backbone for our global operations. You will define multi-year roadmaps, traffic engineering, capacity planning, and demand forecasting to scale the network for rapid growth.

You will lead platform selection for routing and optical hardware, collaborate with vendor teams, and drive automation and telemetry strategies. Mentoring engineers and guiding IaC adoption will be core to this role in a 24x7 on-call context.