Sr. Engineer - Site Reliability; Remote

Crowd Strike, Inc.

Full time

R25015

As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed — we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's 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 Crowd Strike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're also a mission‑driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every Crowd Striker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We're always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers 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.

Crowd Strike is looking to hire a Senior Engineer to the Tech Ops SRE team. We're looking for a deeply‑technical, hands‑on engineer, who loves to develop automation and tooling through software to ensure delivery of mission critical solutions and services for large‑scale distributed systems.

• Expertise with Linux engineering and administration for thousands of bare metal servers and virtual machines
• Responsible for troubleshooting server hardware issues
• Responsible for all operational aspects of our platform – Availability, Latency, Throughput, Monitoring, Issue Response (analysis, remediation, deployment) and Capacity Planning with respect to Latency and Throughput
• Work in a team of highly motivated engineers distributed across the globe
• Use your passion for technology, automation, and tooling to ensure our platform operates 24x7
• Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team. We don't expect you to know all the technology we use but you will be able to get up to speed on new technology quickly
• Have broad exposure to our entire architecture and become one of our experts in our overall process flow
• Have an intrinsic drive to make things better
• Have experience with modern monitoring and telemetry stacks (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning
• Ability to lead incident analysis for incidents, champion incident response practices and assist in correlating incidents to systemic problems, and drive towards resolution.

• Bachelors degree and/or equivalent experience in Computer Science
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in software engineering
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in one or more of: C++, Java, Python, Go
• Experience with storage technologies (Examples: SAN, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, FreeNAS, iSCSI)
• Experience with Infrastructure technologies (Examples: Linux, Windows, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience writing technical documentation
• Configuration management experience with one or more tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible
• Solid understanding of application design, including operational trade‑offs of various designs
• Analytical skills coupled with a strong sense of urgency, ownership, and drive
• Ability to work with well in a team‑focused environment with other SREs and Engineers
• Ability to broadly communicate and present recommended conventions defined by the reliability team broadly

This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.

• Remote‑friendly and flexible work culture
• 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…