Principal, Disaster Recovery (Remote)

CrowdStrike

1d•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. 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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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 The Principal Disaster Recovery will lead CrowdStrike's enterprise disaster recovery strategy and planning across both corporate IT and product engineering technology stacks. This role sits within the Technology Excellence & Resilience team, CrowdStrike's central resilience function responsible for enterprise-wide technology resilience standards, practices, and capabilities. As a senior individual contributor, this role is responsible for ensuring that CrowdStrike's most critical technology systems — spanning internal IT infrastructure and customer-facing product and engineering platforms — are designed, documented, and maintained to recover reliably within defined objectives. This role bridges DR strategy with hands-on technical DR planning, partnering closely with internal organizations to translate enterprise recovery standards into system-specific recovery plans, configurations, and procedures. Working in close partnership with the central resilience testing organization, the Principal Disaster Recovery serves as the enterprise authority on DR standards, planning quality, and recovery capabilities.

Requirements

Experience: 10+ years of experience in disaster recovery, infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, or related technical disciplines, with demonstrated expertise in enterprise-scale DR planning across both corporate IT and cloud-native product engineering environments
Product Engineering DR: Proven, hands-on experience developing and maintaining DR programs for cloud-native product engineering environments, including microservices, distributed systems, and customer-facing platforms at enterprise scale. This is a core requirement of the role.
Technical Breadth: Proven ability to engage credibly across both corporate IT infrastructure (networking, servers, SaaS platforms, end-user systems) and product engineering environments (cloud-native applications, microservices, distributed systems)
DR Planning Depth: Deep experience developing and maintaining system-level DR plans, defining RTO/RPO objectives, and managing backup, replication, and recovery configurations for complex technology portfolios
Standards Development: Experience creating and maintaining enterprise DR standards, policies, and governance frameworks that can be consistently applied across various technology teams
Cross-Functional Influence: Demonstrated ability to drive DR planning adoption and accountability across engineering and IT organizations without direct authority over those teams
Technical Communication: Ability to translate complex technical recovery concepts into clear plans, standards, and executive communications that are actionable at multiple levels of the organization
Cloud Architecture Knowledge: Strong understanding of cloud-native DR patterns including multi-region strategies, data replication, failover automation, and recovery orchestration across major cloud providers
Problem Solving: Proven track record of identifying and resolving complex DR gaps across large, heterogeneous technology environments
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Availability: Ability to provide leadership support during crisis and recovery events, including nights and weekends when required

Nice To Haves

Background spanning both corporate IT DR and product/engineering DR disciplines at a high-growth, cloud-native, or SaaS technology company
Hands-on experience with backup and recovery platforms, replication technologies, and recovery automation tooling
Experience with observability and monitoring platforms as they relate to recovery validation and DR readiness
Familiarity with chaos engineering practices and their relationship to DR validation
Advanced knowledge of cloud provider DR capabilities and architectural patterns (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience with resilience maturity models and DR capability assessments
Certifications in disaster recovery, cloud architecture, or site reliability disciplines (e.g., DRCS, CISSP, AWS/Azure/GCP architecture certifications)

Responsibilities

Enterprise DR Strategy: Own and drive CrowdStrike's disaster recovery strategy across corporate IT and product engineering, ensuring a consistent, enterprise-wide approach to recovery planning that accounts for the distinct characteristics of each technology domain
DR Standards & Governance: Develop, maintain, and enforce enterprise DR standards including RTO/RPO tiering, recovery plan requirements, backup and redundancy expectations, and configuration standards across infrastructure, applications, and product services. Establish and maintain standards for DR plan documentation, ensuring plans are accurate, current, executable under pressure, and owned by the appropriate technical teams
Technical DR Planning: Partner directly with IT and Engineering teams to develop, review, and maintain system-level DR plans for critical technology assets — translating enterprise standards into technically sound, executable recovery procedures specific to each system or service. Lead the process of defining, validating, and maintaining recovery time and recovery point objectives across the technology portfolio, ensuring alignment between business criticality, technical capability, and recovery commitments
Practice Leadership: Mentor, coach, and guide engineering and IT teams on advanced DR best practices and resilience engineering principles.
Gap Identification & Risk Management: Continuously assess the DR posture of critical systems, identify gaps between current recovery capabilities and defined objectives, and drive remediation through appropriate technology teams
Testing Collaboration: Partner with the central resilience testing organization to inform DR exercise design, provide technical context for test scenarios, and ensure test findings are incorporated into plan improvements
Recovery Validation: Consult on DR test execution and recovery validation activities, providing technical expertise to assess whether recovery procedures perform as designed
Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with engineering leads, infrastructure owners, and IT leadership to ensure DR planning remains integrated with system development and operational practices
Continuous Improvement: Analyze DR test outcomes, incident data, and near-misses to drive systematic improvements to recovery plans, standards, and technical configurations
Executive Communication: Translate DR posture, gaps, and program progress into clear, concise communications for senior leadership

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

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