Senior Platform Engineer, Kubernetes at Scale (Remote)

CrowdStrike, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Great Place to Work Certified

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. is hiring a Sr. Platform Engineer to drive the global expansion of the Falcon platform. The role focuses on building scalable, cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure using open-source tooling and AI-enhanced decision-support. You’ll work across AWS, GCP, and OCI, ensuring reliability at scale.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Thanos, and Alertmanager, plus Golang expertise. Remote-friendly, with CJIS eligibility and on-call readiness expected.

Qualifications

• Must be eligible for CJIS clearance (U.S. citizenship or Green Card/permanent resident status).
• 5+ years of Kubernetes experience including management of clusters with thousands of nodes.
• Experience with Prometheus, Thanos, and Alertmanager.
• Golang development experience.
• Experience with large-scale Linux environments.
• Experience operating in clouds: AWS, GCP, OCI.
• Experience operating in custom data centers.
• Familiarity with on-call shifts and incident response.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance 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-experienced engineers on infrastructure decisions.

Skills

Kubernetes management

Prometheus

Thanos

Alertmanager

Golang

On-call readiness

Linux-scale environments

Cloud platforms experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS, CIS or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Thanos

Alertmanager

Golang

Linux

AWS

GCP

OCI

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. is hiring a Sr. Platform Engineer to drive the global expansion of the Falcon platform. The role focuses on building scalable, cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure using open-source tooling and AI-enhanced decision-support. You’ll work across AWS, GCP, and OCI, ensuring reliability at scale.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Thanos, and Alertmanager, plus Golang expertise. Remote-friendly, with CJIS eligibility and on-call readiness expected.