CrowdStrike
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Core Platform & Embedded Reliability (Hybrid)
$140K–$215K
USA - New York, NY +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- USA - New York, NY
USA - Austin, TX
USA - Sunnyvale, CA
USA - Redmond, WA - Experience
- 10+ years in 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
Build and improve shared platform services, libraries, and tools while partnering with product teams to strengthen reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency across CrowdStrike’s distributed systems.
What you'll do
- Set reliability roadmaps with engineering leadership and deliver architectural improvements across services, libraries, and platforms.
- Establish observability, SLOs and error budgets; lead performance, resilience, and cost optimization work.
- Provide technical leadership during incidents, build automation and infrastructure-as-code, and 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 at least one language, with expert Go proficiency or willingness and ability to reach it.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and engineering best practices; demonstrated organizational-scope architectural impact.
- Degree in Computer Science, or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems; proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and distributed technologies such as AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, or similar.
- Experience with multi-cloud systems, internal platforms, cost or performance optimization, 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
Use 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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