Senior SRE: Core Platform & Embedded Reliability

CrowdStrike; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation policy

Parental leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Office culture

Great Place to Work

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and architectural decisions across CrowdStrike's Falcon Platform. You will collaborate with product engineering teams to deliver robust backend services, libraries, and tooling, shaping reliability outcomes at scale.

You will mentor engineers, drive SLO/SLI practices, and influence architectural standards with hands-on ownership of critical infrastructure across multiple cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• 5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product in a modern backend language.
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one programming language (Go) or willingness to reach expert level.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, consensus algorithms, replication, consistency models, and scalability patterns.
• Proven experience scaling backend systems: sharding, partitioning, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing.
• Track record of impactful architectural decisions at organizational scope.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to influence across organizational boundaries.
• Engineering best practices: testing paradigms, code review, and resilient architecture.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative environment; team player.
• Desire to ship code and see it in production.
• Degree in Computer Science, or commensurate experience.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows, and drive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leadership to define and drive multi-year reliability roadmaps.
• Design and implement architectural improvements to services, libraries, and platforms.
• Develop and maintain services meeting reliability and scalability demands.
• Extend and build libraries for cross-cutting concerns across CrowdStrike's cloud platform.
• Lead initiatives around reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish observability practices and drive automation through monitoring and CD.
• Define and implement SLOs and error budgets for real decision-making.
• Lead performance and cost optimization: profiling and capacity planning.
• Conduct resilience engineering: chaos experiments and failure modeling.
• Automate infrastructure-as-code to improve reliability and reduce toil.
• Provide technical leadership during incidents and retrospectives.
• Extract patterns into shared libraries and tools; collaborate with platform teams.
• Continuously re-evaluate architectures to improve performance and stability.
• Drive strategic technical decisions across the organization.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical IQ across the team.
• Contribute to open source and evangelize best practices.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable backend infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices

Go programming

System architecture

Concurrency

SLO/SLI

Cloud fundamentals

AI technologies

Leadership

CS degree

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Cassandra

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

GCP

OCI

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and architectural decisions across CrowdStrike's Falcon Platform. You will collaborate with product engineering teams to deliver robust backend services, libraries, and tooling, shaping reliability outcomes at scale.

You will mentor engineers, drive SLO/SLI practices, and influence architectural standards with hands-on ownership of critical infrastructure across multiple cloud environments.