Manager, Engineering - Dev Ops/SRE (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.$140K — $215K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 10+ years in software engineering with focus on reliability engineering and production operations.
  • 3+ years of management experience for SRE/Platform engineering teams.
  • Proven ability to build and lead high-performing engineering teams in high-growth environments.
  • Deep understanding of SRE principles and strategies for large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP) with emphasis on reliability and security patterns.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team to manage complex scaling challenges in the cloud-native platform.
  • Ensure services maintain high reliability, uptime, and performance for customers.
  • Mentor team members, fostering their growth and development.
  • Drive system reliability through proactive and automated operations.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance overall system performance.

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.
  • Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

At CrowdStrike, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is at the forefront of ensuring the reliability and scalability of our cloud-native security platform. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to manage a team of talented engineers, providing technical leadership on key projects and empowering them to excel in their roles. Our culture of intellectual curiosity and problem-solving is central to our success at CrowdStrike. We bring together individuals with varied backgrounds and perspectives, fostering collaboration and innovation in a blame-free environment.

What You'll Do:

As an SRE Engineering Manager, you will lead a team responsible for managing the complex challenges of scale unique to CrowdStrike, leveraging your expertise in software engineering, systems design, and automation. You will play a critical role in ensuring that our services maintain the highest levels of reliability, uptime, and performance, meeting the needs of our customers while continuously improving our systems. You'll have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects while providing support and mentorship to your team, enabling them to learn, grow, and make a lasting impact in the cybersecurity landscape.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in cloud solutions development, strong leadership skills, and a collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams. Given our remote-first culture, exceptional verbal and written communication skills are essential for effective collaboration with engineering teams and colleagues worldwide. Prior experience in the security industry is not required for this role.

What You'll Need:

  • Proven track record of building, growing, and retaining high-performing SRE/Platform engineering teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant focus on reliability engineering, platform infrastructure, and production operations at scale.

  • 3+ years of hands-on management experience overseeing SRE/Platform engineering teams, including incident command and reliability ownership.

  • Deep understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, SLAs, SLIs, error budgeting strategies applied to large-scale distributed systems.

  • Driving system reliability by blending software engineering principles with AI-driven automation, moving from reactive firefighting to proactive, automated operations.

  • Proficiency in at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP) with emphasis on multi-region architecture, cloud-native reliability patterns, and security-first cloud design.

  • Proven experience owning reliability for high-throughput distributed systems processing millions of events per second, including capacity planning, traffic management, and load shedding strategies.

  • Strong incident management background including leading major incident response, facilitating blameless postmortems, and driving systemic reliability improvements.

  • Demonstrated ability to build, operationalize, and maintain highly scalable, security-critical systems with zero tolerance for data loss or downtime.

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

  • Ability to work 2+ days per week in our Sunnyvale Offices

Bonus Points:

  • Experience operating security platforms, telemetry pipelines, or sensor fleet infrastructure at massive scale (millions of connected endpoints, petabyte-scale data processing).

  • Proficiency in Golang, CrowdStrike's primary backend language for platform services.

  • Experience with Kubernetes at scale managing large cluster fleets, including service mesh technologies (Istio/Linkerd) and container security practices.

  • Familiarity with high-throughput data streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka and Apache Flink for real-time event processing.

  • Experience with hybrid cloud environments spanning cloud and on-premise data center infrastructure including multi-cloud failover strategies.

  • Advanced observability experience including Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing (Jaeger/OpenTelemetry), and large-scale log aggregation (ELK/Splunk) with a focus on building custom SLO dashboards and reliability scorecards.

  • Experience building and running chaos engineering programs like fault injection testing, and resilience validation for security-critical systems.

  • Contributions to open-source projects or involvement in the tech community through conferences, meetups, or online forums.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

  • 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


CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $140,000 - $215,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.

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