Manager - Engineering SRE

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 diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving is central to our success at CrowdStrike. We bring together individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, fostering collaboration and innovation in a blame-free environment. Location: Bangalore/ Pune

Requirements

• 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.
• 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,

Benefits

Additional Information

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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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.

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