Senior SRE: Core Platform & Embedded Reliability

Socket.dev; New York (WA, NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer to shape reliability across Falcon Platform. You will partner with product leaders to design and implement robust services, libraries, and tooling, ensuring scalability and resilience in a fast-growing cloud-native environment.

Lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive observability and SLO initiatives while collaborating with multiple product groups and cloud providers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• 5+ years developing microservices for SaaS products.
• Expert-level Go or ability to reach expert level in Go.
• Strong architectural decisions with impact across org.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-year reliability roadmaps across product groups.
• Design architectural improvements to services, libraries, and platforms.
• Develop and maintain services meeting reliability and scalability goals.
• Lead initiatives for cost efficiency, performance, and resilience.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in production systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go programming

Backend scalability

Reliability engineering

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Cassandra

GCP

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer to shape reliability across Falcon Platform. You will partner with product leaders to design and implement robust services, libraries, and tooling, ensuring scalability and resilience in a fast-growing cloud-native environment.

Lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive observability and SLO initiatives while collaborating with multiple product groups and cloud providers.