Senior Platform Engineer: Kubernetes at Scale (Remote)

CrowdStrike Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leader in compensation and equi

Comprehensive physical and mental well

Competitive vacation and holidays for

Paid parental and adoption leaves

Professional development opportunities

Employee Networks and volunteering

Vibrant office culture with world–cl}

Great Place to Work Certified™

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer to support the ongoing global expansion of the Falcon platform. You will be a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and open-source tooling, shaping the reliability and scalability of our distributed systems.

You will mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and work across remote and distributed teams to drive secure, scalable infrastructure for mission-critical workloads.

Qualifications

• Must be eligible for CJIS clearance (U.S. citizenship or green card).
• 5+ years of Kubernetes experience with clusters of thousands of nodes.
• Experience with Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, Grafana.
• Proficiency in Golang.
• Experience with large-scale Linux environments.
• Experience operating in cloud environments AWS, GCP, OCI.
• Experience operating in custom data centers.
• Familiarity with on-call shifts.
• Proven ability to leverage AI technologies to improve decision-making and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platform solutions at scale.
• Optimize and maintain high reliability of large-scale infrastructure platform systems.
• Evaluate and integrate open-source technologies into existing workflows.
• Provide technical direction for evolving Kubernetes infrastructure services.
• Mentor and develop less-senior engineers to drive collaboration.

Skills

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Thanos

Alertmanager

Golang

Linux

AWS

GCP

OCI

On-call

AI in workflows

Job description

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer to support the ongoing global expansion of the Falcon platform. You will be a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and open-source tooling, shaping the reliability and scalability of our distributed systems.

You will mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and work across remote and distributed teams to drive secure, scalable infrastructure for mission-critical workloads.