Principal SRE: Core Platform & Embedded Reliability

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leader compensation

Comprehensive wellness programs

Paid parental leaves

Professional development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion programs

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal SRE to operate at the intersection of our Core Platform and Embedded Reliability, building foundational libraries, services, and tooling that power our AI-native Falcon platform.

You will partner with product engineering teams to drive reliability outcomes at scale, shaping architecture and influencing decisions across multiple squads while advancing observability and automation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating distributed systems
• 5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one language (Go preferred)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and scaling
• Proven experience driving reliability and architectural decisions

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-year reliability roadmaps across product groups
• Design architectural improvements to services, libraries, and platforms
• Develop and maintain services meeting reliability and scalability demands
• Lead initiatives around performance, cost optimization, and resilience in large-scale systems
• Mentor engineers and establish architectural standards across the org
• Contribute to observability, automation, and infrastructure-as-code efforts

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Backend development

SRE

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal SRE to operate at the intersection of our Core Platform and Embedded Reliability, building foundational libraries, services, and tooling that power our AI-native Falcon platform.

You will partner with product engineering teams to drive reliability outcomes at scale, shaping architecture and influencing decisions across multiple squads while advancing observability and automation.