Senior SRE - Core Platform & Embedded Reliability (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Sunnyvale (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity awards

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Core Platform & Embedded Reliability, a hybrid role based in the US. You will collaborate with product teams to design scalable, low-latency services and embed reliability practices across the Falcon platform.

This role demands 10+ years in distributed systems, deep Go/backend expertise, and strong skills in Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, and observability.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years building distributed systems.
• Expert in multi-threading and concurrency.
• Experience with SaaS backends.
• Strong engineering practices and code quality.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leaders to define reliability roadmaps.
• Design and implement architectural improvements for core platforms.
• Develop and maintain scalable services with high availability.
• Lead performance and cost optimization efforts.
• Establish and enforce SLOs, error budgets, and observability.
• Mentor engineers and drive architectural standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go backend

SRE

Performance optimization

Observability

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

GCP

Cassandra

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Core Platform & Embedded Reliability, a hybrid role based in the US. You will collaborate with product teams to design scalable, low-latency services and embed reliability practices across the Falcon platform.

This role demands 10+ years in distributed systems, deep Go/backend expertise, and strong skills in Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, and observability.