Manager, Engineering - Dev Ops/SRE (Hybrid)

About the role

At CrowdStrike, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is at the forefront of ensuring the reliability and scalability of our cloud-native security platform. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to manage a team of talented engineers, providing technical leadership on key projects and empowering them to excel in their roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team responsible for managing the complex challenges of scale unique to CrowdStrike, leveraging expertise in software engineering, systems design, and automation.
• Ensure that our services maintain the highest levels of reliability, uptime, and performance, meeting the needs of our customers while continuously improving our systems.
• Work on meaningful projects while providing support and mentorship to your team, enabling them to learn, grow, and make a lasting impact in the cybersecurity landscape.

Requirements

• Proven track record of building, growing, and retaining high-performing SRE/Platform engineering teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant focus on reliability engineering, platform infrastructure, and production operations at scale.
• 3+ years of hands-on management experience overseeing SRE/Platform engineering teams, including incident command and reliability ownership.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, SLAs, SLIs, error budgeting strategies applied to large-scale distributed systems.
• Driving system reliability by blending software engineering principles with AI-driven automation, moving from reactive firefighting to proactive, automated operations.
• Proficiency in at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP) with emphasis on multi-region architecture, cloud-native reliability patterns, and security-first cloud design.
• Experience owning reliability for high-throughput distributed systems processing millions of events per second, including capacity planning, traffic management, and load shedding strategies.
• Strong incident management background including leading major incident response, facilitating blameless postmortems, and driving systemic reliability improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to build, operationalize, and maintain highly scalable, security-critical systems with zero tolerance for data loss or downtime.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to work 2+ days per week in our Sunnyvale Offices.

Skills

• Experience operating security platforms, telemetry pipelines, or sensor fleet infrastructure at massive scale (millions of connected endpoints, petabyte-scale data processing).
• Proficiency in Golang, CrowdStrike's primary backend language for platform services.
• Experience with Kubernetes at scale managing large cluster fleets, including service mesh technologies (Istio/Linkerd) and container security practices.
• Familiarity with high-throughput data streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka and Apache Flink for real-time event processing.
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments spanning cloud and on-premise data center infrastructure including multi-cloud failover strategies.
• Advanced observability experience including Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing (Jaeger/OpenTelemetry), and large-scale log aggregation (ELK/Splunk) with a focus on building custom SLO dashboards and reliability scorecards.
• Experience building and running chaos engineering programs like fault injection testing, and resilience validation for security-critical systems.
• Contributions to open-source projects or involvement in the tech community through conferences, meetups, or online forums.

Benefits

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe