Senior SRE: Core Platform & Embedded Reliability

CrowdStrike; Redmond (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Comprehensive wellness programs

Generous vacation & holidays

Parental & adoption leave

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal SRE to join the Falcon Platform team. You will own reliability across core services, write production code, and mentor engineers while partnering with product teams to architect scalable, observable systems.

This role emphasizes autonomy, cross-team impact, and hands-on engineering to prevent incidents and optimize performance. You will collaborate on cloud deployments, observability tooling, and service-level objectives to drive reliability, cost efficiency,

Qualifications

• 10+ years building distributed systems and service-oriented backends at scale.
• Strong experience with microservices in a SaaS environment.
• Deep understanding of concurrency, replication, and failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leadership to define multi-year reliability roadmaps.
• Design improvements to services, libraries, and platforms impacting multiple product groups.
• Lead performance, cost optimization, and resilience initiatives for large-scale systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Multi-threading

System design

Mentoring

Education

CS degree

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

GCP

OCI

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal SRE to join the Falcon Platform team. You will own reliability across core services, write production code, and mentor engineers while partnering with product teams to architect scalable, observable systems.

This role emphasizes autonomy, cross-team impact, and hands-on engineering to prevent incidents and optimize performance. You will collaborate on cloud deployments, observability tooling, and service-level objectives to drive reliability, cost efficiency,