Engineer III Site Reliability

As a global leader in cybersecurity CrowdStrike protects the people processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011 our mission hasnt changed were here to stop breaches and weve redefined modern security with the worlds most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running their communities safe and their lives moving forward. Were proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption experimentation and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution build expertise uncover insights and solve complex problems. Were always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:
CrowdStrikes engineering organization depends on shared infrastructure platforms that power critical product capabilities. These platforms need dedicated engineering ownership to operate reliably scale safely harden for security and mature into self-service capabilities that teams can depend on.

Youll own production infrastructure that spans multiple cloud providers and regions serving engineering teams across the organization. The work is equal parts platform engineering and operational excellence building automation hardening security establishing governance and enabling consuming teams to adopt these platforms effectively. Youll also help shape what comes next as the teams scope grows.

Were hiring at all seniority levels scope and compensation adjust accordingly.

What Youll Do:

• Run production infrastructure - Deploy upgrade and maintain platform services across multiple clouds and regions on Kubernetes.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines - Make it safe and fast to ship infrastructure changes using GitOps workflows and release automation.

• Build control planes - Create the APIs and tooling that make provisioning and scaling repeatable and self-service.

• Own capacity planning - Track usage forecast growth right-size clusters and keep infrastructure costs in check.

• Build observability - Set up metrics dashboards and alerts using Prometheus and Grafana. Write runbooks that make on-call clear and actionable.

• Own on-call and incidents - Join the on-call rotation resolve issues write postmortems and turn repeat problems into automation.

• Automate everything - Deployments upgrades certificate rotations failover. If you do it by hand more than once automate it.

• Driving system reliability by blending software engineering principles with AI-driven automation moving from reactive firefighting to proactive automated operations.

• Harden security - set up auth encryption secret rotation and network policies. Keep dependencies patched and CVEs resolved.

• Own disaster recovery - Build backup strategies test failover and make sure platforms can survive infrastructure failures.

• Enable other teams - Provide templates patterns and direct support to help engineering teams use platforms reliably.

• Collaborate across teams - Collaborate with Infrastructure SRE and Data Services on shared operational problems.

What Youll Need:

• 8 years in DevOps SRE or platform engineering.

• Hands-on experience running stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes in production.

• CI/CD experience - Building and owning pipelines using GitHub Actions Jenkins Tekton or similar tools.

• Infrastructure-as-code skills - Terraform Pulumi or Crossplane no manual configuration.

• GitOps experience - ArgoCD or Flux for managing infrastructure deployments.

• Observability skills - Prometheus Grafana and distributed tracing tools like Jaeger or OpenTelemetry.

• Database operations - Backup restore schema management and performance tuning for relational and NoSQL databases.

• Security mindset - You implement auth encryption secret management and network policies as part of normal work.

• Multi-cloud or multi-region experience - you have managed infrastructure across providers or regions.

• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making streamline workflows and processes improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience running security platforms or telemetry pipelines at large scale.

• Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service tooling.

• Familiarity with service mesh tools like Istio or Linkerd.

• Experience running workflow orchestration platforms like Temporal or Argo Workflows.

• Experience running distributed tracing or telemetry infrastructure at scale.

• Experience with disaster recovery automation for stateful systems.

• Background at a cybersecurity or high-availability SaaS company.

• Contributions to open-source projects or the broader tech community.

• Go proficiency - our platforms and services are primarily written in Go.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• 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

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race color creed ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity marital or family status veteran status age national origin ancestry physical disability (including HIV and AIDS) mental disability medical condition genetic information membership or activity in a local human rights commission status with regard to public assistance or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment selection training compensation benefits discipline promotions transfers lay-offs return from lay-off terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

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