Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Hybrid)
About The Position
CrowdStrike is launching a new offshoot from its Core Site Reliability Engineering group that will embed into specific product areas to help scale its infrastructure and products as traffic and data grow. The work supports CrowdStrike’s next-generation infrastructure and security platform, including an application and service delivery platform, massively scalable distributed data storage and replication systems, and search and distributed graph systems. CrowdStrike’s cloud-native security platform processes trillions of events per day. The Senior Manager will build and lead high-performing engineering teams, beginning with this new SRE group, while promoting collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. The role works across organizational boundaries to improve platform resiliency and partners with peer leaders and executives to align strategic initiatives and technical direction.
Requirements
- Proven track record of building, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles.
- Demonstrated success driving complex technical initiatives across organizational boundaries.
- Strong design and problem-solving skills, with a passion for engineering excellence, quality, security, and performance.
- Strong executive presence and communication skills for effective partnership with senior leadership.
- Experience leading distributed teams in a remote-first environment.
- Proficiency in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and reliability engineering principles.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- Strategic thinking and ability to translate business objectives into technical roadmaps.
- Excellence in stakeholder management and executive communication.
- Track record of successful cross-functional collaboration.
- Strong change management and organizational development skills.
- Ability to build consensus and drive decisions across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Build and develop cohesive, high-performing teams through mentorship, coaching, and career development.
- Drive collaboration between SRE, Development, Security, and Operations teams to enhance system resilience.
- Partner with executive leadership to define and execute strategic reliability initiatives.
- Maintain relationships with peer leaders to align technical direction and operational priorities.
- Lead organizational change management to improve processes and engineering excellence.
- Guide architectural decisions affecting system reliability and scalability.
- Drive adoption of SRE best practices across multiple teams.
- Oversee implementation of reliability metrics and service-level objectives (SLOs).
- Champion automation and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
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.
- Eligibility for bonuses and equity grants.
- Health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
