CrowdStrike
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Core Platform & Embedded Reliability (Hybrid)
$140K–$215K
USA - New York, NY +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- USA - New York, NY
USA - Austin, TX
USA - Sunnyvale, CA
USA - Redmond, WA - Experience
- 10+ years building and operating distributed systems and service-oriented backends; 5+ years developing SaaS microservices.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science, or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
About the job
Builds shared platform services, libraries, and tooling while partnering with product teams to improve reliability, scalability, performance, and resilience across CrowdStrike’s distributed systems.
What you'll do
- Set reliability roadmaps and lead architectural improvements across product groups.
- Build and maintain services, shared libraries, observability, SLOs, and infrastructure automation.
- Lead performance and cost optimization, resilience initiatives, and complex incident follow-up; mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years building and operating distributed systems and service-oriented backends at scale.
- 5+ years developing SaaS microservices in a modern backend language; expert proficiency in a programming language and expert Go or willingness and ability to reach that level.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and organizationally impactful architectural decisions.
- Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems; proven use of AI technologies to improve decisions, workflows, efficiency, and outcomes.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, cloud providers, or distributed technologies such as AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
- Experience with multi-cloud systems, internal platforms, cost optimization, performance engineering, chaos engineering, SLO/SLI frameworks, open source, or cybersecurity.
Pay
$140,000 - $215,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Go, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, AWS
AI focus
Requires proven experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes. The team’s codebase includes AI-based Detection & Response.
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