Engineering Manager - Core Infrastructure; Remote

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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. Crowd Strikers 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. 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.

Our team builds the foundational platform that powers Crowd Strike’s massive scale. We focus on creating self-service infrastructure-as-a-code primitives, ensuring high availability, and optimizing our cloud footprint to empower our engineering teams to move faster with confidence.

• Please note that if you are close to one of our office locations we would ask that you partake in a hybrid work schedule.
• Manage a growing team of engineers focused on building quality platforms.
• Participate in architecting large scale core infrastructure services for service teams at Crowd Strike.
• Participate in regular retros, capacity and planning meetings with your team, allowing team collaboration and discussions in a high fidelity manner.
• Be part of “lunch and learn” demos: for new POCs or design sessions to work out new architectures.
• Flexible working - with transparent communication, we encourage flexible working and a healthy work life balance.
• Responsible for reviewing, providing feedback and approving new design proposals from your team.
• Help plan the product roadmap
• Drive cloud cost optimization efforts, balancing high-performance requirements with operational efficiency and budget awareness.
• Define and enforce standards for service deployments, ensuring consistency across our complex, multi-cloud environment.

• Experience in Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Salt or similar solutions)
• Experience in Provisioning & Orchestration (Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, Temporal or similar solutions)
• Experience with immutable architecture and distributed systems design.
• Experience in software development, design patterns, data structures and algorithms ( Python or Go )
• Experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments.
• Experience operating within the cloud, AWS & GCP preferred.
• Experience with TDD, CI/CD, Chaos Engineering or similar resilience and reliability practices for infrastructure development.
• Knowledge of SRE, Devops and Gitops practices
• 8+ years industry experience
• Experience in building and managing reusable infrastructure modules and internal developer platforms (IDP).
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLO management, error budget planning, and post-incident analysis.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

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