Lead Architect - Sensor Telemetry & Observability

CrowdStrike; Oregon (WI); On-site; USD 195,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Health insurance

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the telemetry and observability architecture from endpoint to cloud. You will guide cross‑platform delivery (Windows, macOS, Linux), ensure robust telemetry paths, and drive data governance and privacy compliance at scale.

You will mentor a distributed team and influence engineering direction, balancing performance, reliability, and security as part of a fast-growing AI-enabled security platform.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on experience architecting at-scale telemetry, observability, or crash-reporting platforms end-to-end.
• Strong low-level and systems engineering in C/C++, with a track record of performance-sensitive, resource-constrained design.
• Experience with structured logging, telemetry data governance, and privacy/PII handling at scale.
• A record of shipping and evolving platforms without breaking consumers, and of influencing technical direction across teams.
• Strong debugging fundamentals: crashes, memory issues, contention, and system performance.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate in a distributed team.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical strategy for a unified telemetry and observability platform, from endpoint collection SDK to cloud ingestion, decode, and analytics.
• Design for the realities of the endpoint: crash-survivable in-memory telemetry, resource-constrained collection, priority stream separation, and performance-sensitive paths.
• Drive structured logging and data governance — type safety, PII auditability, and privacy compliance for telemetry collected at scale.
• Evolve the platform without breaking existing consumers, and serve as the connective technical authority for telemetry across multiple teams.
• Own designs from concept through shipped code, on-endpoint and in-cloud, with cross-platform deliverables.
• Lead, mentor, and raise the technical bar across a distributed engineering team.

Skills

C/C++

Telemetry platforms

Observability

Distributed systems

AI technologies

Mentorship

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the telemetry and observability architecture from endpoint to cloud. You will guide cross‑platform delivery (Windows, macOS, Linux), ensure robust telemetry paths, and drive data governance and privacy compliance at scale.

You will mentor a distributed team and influence engineering direction, balancing performance, reliability, and security as part of a fast-growing AI-enabled security platform.