Network Engineering Manager, Backbone & Cloud (Remote)

CrowdStrike, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed Network Engineering team responsible for backbone and cloud connectivity at scale.

You will shape the roadmap, optimize our hybrid infrastructure, and collaborate with partners to meet service requirements across multiple clouds. You will drive automation, tooling, and platform enhancements while guiding team initiatives in a fast-paced, security-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience operating multi-vendor hyper-scale IP and Optical backbone, data center networks and public cloud networks (AWS, GCP, OCI, or equivalent).
• Proven track record managing global engineering teams and leading initiatives independently with minimal supervision.
• Expert in large scale backbone networking technologies and protocols such as DWDM, ROADM, MP-BGP, MPLS, RSVP, Segment Routing, IS-IS, QoS, MACsec.
• Experience with optical networks, core backbone routing, DDoS mitigation and other edge network services.

Responsibilities

• Lead network engineering team and drive initiatives to scale our IP and Optical backbone while maintaining consistency and stability.
• Drive technical roadmap, cloud connectivity strategy and budget.
• Collaborate with internal service partners and advance the IP and Optical network architecture to meet evolving service requirements.
• Engage with external vendors to discuss roadmap alignment, validate new designs or platforms, and lead post-mortem discussions on recent issues.
• Drive operational excellence and best practices in operating and scaling infrastructure.
• Drive backbone network automation strategy and development.
• Develop tools to enhance consistency across multiple hybrid clouds.
• Drive the development, testing and integration of new hardware and software platforms.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations

Skills

Global engineering leadership

Backbone networking

Cloud networking

Scripting (bash/python)

Automation frameworks

DWDM/ROADM

IS-IS QoS MPLS

Security compliance (FedRAMP/CJIS)

AI in workflows

Network automation tooling

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Chef

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed Network Engineering team responsible for backbone and cloud connectivity at scale.

You will shape the roadmap, optimize our hybrid infrastructure, and collaborate with partners to meet service requirements across multiple clouds. You will drive automation, tooling, and platform enhancements while guiding team initiatives in a fast-paced, security-focused environment.