Manager, Engineering - Dev Ops/SRE (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leader in compensation

Comprehensive wellness programs

Competitive vacation

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

CrowdStrike, a leader in cybersecurity, is seeking an SRE Engineering Manager to lead a talented team in ensuring the reliability of their cloud-native platform. This role includes managing engineering challenges and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of software engineering experience, strong leadership skills, and profound knowledge of SRE principles. The position offers a competitive salary range of $140,000 to $215,000 annually, along with comprehensive benefits and opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on reliability engineering.
• 3+ years of experience managing SRE/Platform engineering teams.
• Understanding of SRE principles like SLOs, SLAs, and error budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team managing reliability challenges of CrowdStrike's security platform.
• Ensure services maintain high levels of reliability, uptime, and performance.
• Provide technical leadership and empower engineers to excel.

Skills

Software engineering

Reliability engineering

Platform infrastructure

Incident management

Cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed - we are here to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We are also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We are always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About The Role

At CrowdStrike, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is at the forefront of ensuring the reliability and scalability of our cloud-native security platform. In this role, you will have the opportunity to manage a team of talented engineers, providing technical leadership on key projects and empowering them to excel in their roles. Our culture of intellectual curiosity and problem‑solving is central to our success at CrowdStrike. We bring together individuals with varied backgrounds and perspectives, fostering collaboration and innovation in a blame‑free environment.

What You’ll Do

As an SRE Engineering Manager, you will lead a team responsible for managing the complex challenges of scale unique to CrowdStrike, leveraging your expertise in software engineering, systems design, and automation. You will play a critical role in ensuring that our services maintain the highest levels of reliability, uptime, and performance, meeting the needs of our customers while continuously improving our systems. You’ll have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects while providing support and mentorship to your team, enabling them to learn, grow, and make a lasting impact in the cybersecurity landscape. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience in cloud solutions development, strong leadership skills, and a collaborative approach to working with cross‑functional teams. Given our remote‑first culture, exceptional verbal and written communication skills are essential for effective collaboration with engineering teams and colleagues worldwide. Prior experience in the security industry is not required for this role.

What You’ll Need

• Proven track record of building, growing, and retaining high‑performing SRE/Platform engineering teams in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant focus on reliability engineering, platform infrastructure, and production operations at scale.
• 3+ years of hands‑on management experience overseeing SRE/Platform engineering teams, including incident command and reliability ownership.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, SLAs, SLIs, error budgeting strategies applied to large‑scale distributed systems.
• Driving system reliability by blending software engineering principles with AI‑driven automation, moving from reactive firefighting to proactive, automated operations.
• Proficiency in at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP) with emphasis on multi‑region architecture, cloud‑native reliability patterns, and security‑first cloud design.
• Proven experience owning reliability for high‑throughput distributed systems processing millions of events per second, including capacity planning, traffic management, and load shedding strategies.
• Strong incident management background including leading major incident response, facilitating blameless post‑mortems, and driving systemic reliability improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to build, operationalize, and maintain highly scalable, security‑critical systems with zero tolerance for data loss or downtime.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to work 2+ days per week in our Sunnyvale Offices.

Bonus Points

• Experience operating security platforms, telemetry pipelines, or sensor fleet infrastructure at massive scale (millions of connected endpoints, petabyte‑scale data processing).
• Proficiency in Golang, CrowdStrike's primary backend language for platform services.
• Experience with Kubernetes at scale managing large cluster fleets, including service mesh technologies (Istio/Linkerd) and container security practices.
• Familiarity with high‑throughput data streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka and Apache Flink for real‑time event processing.
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments spanning cloud and on‑premise data center infrastructure including multi‑cloud failover strategies.
• Advanced observability experience including Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing (Jaeger/OpenTelemetry), and large‑scale log aggregation (ELK/Splunk) with a focus on building custom SLO dashboards and reliability scorecards.
• Experience building and running chaos engineering programs like fault injection testing, and resilience validation for security‑critical systems.
• Contributions to open‑source projects or involvement in the tech community through conferences, meetups, or online forums.

Benefits Of Working At CrowdStrike

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy‑related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions—including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay‑offs, return from lay‑off, terminations and social/recreational programs—on valid job requirements.

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CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $140,000 - $215,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401(k) and paid time off.

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