Engineering Manager - Core Infrastructure (Remote)
About The Position
As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike 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 CrowdStrike 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. 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. We’re 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: Our team builds the foundational platform that powers CrowdStrike’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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Proven ability to work effectively with both local and remote teams.
- Rock solid communication skills, verbal and written.
- A combination of confidence and independence, with the prudence to know when to ask for help from the rest of the team.
- 4+ years of experience as a people manager
- Led a team of Senior Engineers
- Proven track record of influencing engineering strategy beyond your immediate team, and acting as a technical consultant to other product engineering groups.
Responsibilities
- Manage a growing team of engineers focused on building quality platforms.
- Participate in architecting large scale core infrastructure services for service teams at CrowdStrike.
- 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.
- 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 with managing on-call
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
- health insurance
- 401k
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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