Remote Backbone & Cloud Networking Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Market leader in compensation and isqu

Comprehensive physical and mental well

Competitive vacation and holidays for

Paid parental and adoption leaves

Professional development opportunities

Employee Networks, geographic neighbor

Vibrant office culture with world clas

Great Place to Work Certified across

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Network Engineering team, shaping backbone and cloud connectivity for a hybrid infrastructure at scale.

You will drive the technical roadmap, orchestrate multi-vendor networks, and collaborate with partners to meet growing service requirements in a secure, efficient environment. You will manage a global team, own automation initiatives, and contribute to AI-enabled decision making across operations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years operating multi-vendor backbone and data center networks.
• Experience with public cloud networks (AWS, GCP, OCI).
• Proven global engineering leadership.
• Expert in DWDM/ROADM/MPLS/IS-IS/QoS.
• Scripting and automation experience.
• Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP).
• CJIS clearance eligibility (US citizenship/green card).
• Experience with network automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead network engineering team to scale IP and Optical backbone.
• Drive cloud connectivity strategy and budget.
• Collaborate with internal service partners; evolve architecture.
• Engage external vendors for roadmap alignment and post-mortems.
• Promote operational excellence and automation.
• Develop tools for cross-hybrid cloud consistency.
• Test and integrate new hardware/software platforms.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations.

Skills

Backbone networking

Global leadership

DWDM/ROADM

MPLS/IS-IS/QoS

Public cloud networking

Bash scripting

Automation tools

FedRAMP experience

CJIS eligible

AI utilization

Tools

Ansible

Chef

Terraform

Python

Bash

Job description

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Network Engineering team, shaping backbone and cloud connectivity for a hybrid infrastructure at scale.

You will drive the technical roadmap, orchestrate multi-vendor networks, and collaborate with partners to meet growing service requirements in a secure, efficient environment. You will manage a global team, own automation initiatives, and contribute to AI-enabled decision making across operations.