Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Core Platform, Embedded Reliability

CrowdStrike

. Partner with engineering leadership across multiple product groups to define and drive multi-year reliability roadmaps .

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating distributed systems, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance optimization. Proficient in leading architectural improvements and implementing best practices in cloud-native environments, particularly using Go and other modern backend languages.

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Distributed Systems ExpertiseMicroservices DevelopmentReliability EngineeringPerformance OptimizationCloud Infrastructure Management

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Hard Skills

Go ProgrammingJava ProgrammingScala ProgrammingKotlin ProgrammingPython ProgrammingNode.js ProgrammingMicroservices ArchitectureChaos EngineeringPerformance EngineeringInfrastructure-as-Code

Soft Skills

Systems ThinkingInfluencing Without AuthorityCollaborationMentoringTechnical Leadership

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesAWSCassandraKafkaElasticsearchGoogle Cloud PlatformOracle Cloud InfrastructureContinuous DeliveryAutomation ToolsOpen Source Contributions

Industry Keywords

CybersecuritySLO/SLI FrameworksResilience TestingService-Level ObjectivesCloud Providers

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCassandraCloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptKafkaKotlinKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsOpen SourceOraclePythonScalaGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with engineering leadership across multiple product groups to define and drive multi-year reliability roadmaps
Design and implement architectural improvements to services, libraries, and platforms across CrowdStrike
Develop and maintain services meeting aggressive reliability and scalability demands
Extend and build libraries for cross-cutting concerns across CrowdStrike's cloud platform
Lead reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency initiatives in large-scale distributed systems
Establish observability practices, including service instrumentation, signal response, and automation such as continuous delivery
Define and implement service-level objectives and error budgets
Lead performance and cost optimization through profiling, bottleneck analysis, capacity planning, and cloud efficiency improvements
Conduct resilience engineering, including chaos experiments, failure injection, failure modeling, and graceful degradation
Design and implement automation and infrastructure-as-code
Provide technical leadership during complex incidents and drive concrete retrospective improvements
Identify common patterns for shared libraries and tools and partner with platform teams on improvements
Re-evaluate products to improve architecture, knowledge models, developer and user experience, performance, and stability
Drive strategic technical decisions and influence infrastructure and operational improvements
Mentor and coach engineers and drive architectural standards
Use and contribute to the open source community and evangelize software engineering best practices, especially Go
Collaboratively brainstorm, define, and build with multiple teams while owning deliverables
Build foundational libraries, services, and tooling for CrowdStrike Falcon, a cloud-native cybersecurity and threat-hunting platform
Embed with product engineering teams and leadership to drive reliability outcomes at scale

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems and service-oriented backends at scale
5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product in a modern backend language (Go, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Node.js)
Expert-level proficiency in at least one programming language, with expert-level Go or demonstrated ability and willingness to reach expert level in Go
Deep understanding of distributed systems, including consensus algorithms, replication, consistency models, failure modes, and scalability patterns
Proven experience scaling backend systems, including sharding, partitioning, horizontal scaling, capacity planning, and performance optimization
Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing
Track record of impactful architectural decisions at organizational scope and taking them through production
Strong systems thinking and ability to influence without direct authority across organizational boundaries
Thorough command of engineering best practices, testing paradigms, peer code review, and resilient architecture
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, and iterative environment
Desire to ship code and experience running code in production
Degree in Computer Science, or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes
Experience with Go, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, or Node.js
Experience with Kubernetes or other large-scale orchestration systems
Hands-on experience with AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, or similar large-scale distributed technologies
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Experience delivering or operating services across multiple cloud providers
Experience with infrastructure cost optimization at scale
Background in performance engineering
Experience with chaos engineering or resilience testing
History of establishing SLO/SLI frameworks and error budgets in production environments
Contributions to the open source community
Prior experience in cybersecurity or intelligence fields

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Health insurance
401k
Paid time off
Bonuses
Equity grants