Engineer III - TechOps CICD SRE (Reliability Focused)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

Join CrowdStrike's internal SRE team as an Engineer III where you'll contribute to building and maintaining a robust, scalable, and highly reliable internal developer platform that empowers our engineering team to deliver high-quality software rapidly and efficiently.

We are looking for talented and experienced Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to join our team and play a critical role in enhancing automation, reliability, and observability of our service offerings. A strong candidate for this role will have advanced hands-on experience scaling and improving observability practices across engineering teams, with a strong software development background building observability solutions at scale. Additionally, a candidate should have a solid foundation in SRE principles and SLI/SLOs, and the ability to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into existing observability and operational workflows.

You'll work alongside experienced engineers to implement automation solutions, support our development toolchain, and ensure system reliability. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your SRE skills in a collaborative environment while contributing to meaningful improvements that impact developer productivity across the organization.

This position offers hands-on experience with modern technologies and the chance to learn from industry experts while supporting one of the leading cybersecurity platforms. You'll be part of a team that values mentorship, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

What You'll Do:

• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications

• Support Crowdstrike’s primary CI/CD build tools

  • Building automation solutions for service deployment

  • Monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health

  • Improve reliability, quality, and serviceability of systems

• Architectural design of highly available services at an enterprise scale

• Interact with internal customers to understand needs and develop solutions

• Championing the Incident Response and Production Readiness Review (PRR) for our organization

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and root cause analysis

• Resource, capacity, and license forecasting

• Partner with and foster a mentorship mentality with other Engineers

• Design, implement, and maintain full-stack observability (Datadog, Grafana stack, LogScale, Jaeger , New Relic, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Thanos, ect) to meet production reliability demands

  • Optimize for high-cardinality workloads and instrumentation standardization

• Drive the transition to AI-native observability for proactive system  resilience and zero-toil operations

  • Automate alert correlation, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis through AIOps integration

  • Train internal AI models on runbooks and incident data to power self-healing frameworks

• Uphold code quality and secure development standards (SonarQube, OWASP) across the engineering lifecycle

• Actively audit SLI/SLO definitions and error budgets to reflect real user impact

What You’ll Need:

• On-Premise & Cloud expertise with deploying, scaling, and maintaining the following services:

  • CI/CD tools

    • Bazel, Github Actions, Jenkins

  • IaC Provisioning tools

    • Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Terraform

  • Source Code Management services

    • Bitbucket, Gitlab, Github

  • Monitoring and Observability tooling

    • Opensource Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic

• Experience with deploying applications on Kubernetes at scale

• 5+ years of experience working in a large-scale production environment.

• Proven ability to work effectively with both local and remote teams

• Must exhibit attention to detail, and have the ability to make good, timely decisions

• Ability to make trade offs between short term and long term goals

• Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.

• Security first mindset, general understanding of cybersecurity principles

• Experience adding and integrating AI into existing workflows

• Strong programming skills in one or more of Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, or C#.

Bonus Points:

• Knowledge of multiple cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle)

Experience with creating automated reporting on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis

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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 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

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