Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
SaaS security platforms live or die on reliability, and this SRE and DevOps Engineer role sits at that fault line. CrowdStrike operates an AI native cybersecurity SaaS with very high event volume, which makes core platform infrastructure a product in its own right. The remit spans multi cloud, multi region Kubernetes services that other engineering teams depend on, a strong signal that this is internal platform work rather than isolated application support.
For a SaaS career, the value is in learning how mature companies industrialise delivery and operations at scale. Ownership of CI CD and GitOps workflows, observability standards, and incident postmortems builds a practical toolkit that transfers across subscription businesses where uptime, change safety, and cost discipline shape customer retention. The emphasis on automation, governance, and self service control planes also maps to the broader shift toward platform engineering as SaaS organisations grow.
This is best suited to engineers who like turning operational pain into systems, prefer measurable reliability outcomes, and are comfortable balancing security hardening with developer usability. The hybrid Sunnyvale requirement will fit those who collaborate closely with adjacent infrastructure and data teams and want hands on responsibility for production critical services.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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.
About the Role:
CrowdStrike's engineering organization depends on shared infrastructure platforms that power critical product capabilities. These platforms need dedicated engineering ownership to operate reliably, scale safely, harden for security, and mature into self-service capabilities that teams can depend on.
You'll own production infrastructure that spans multiple cloud providers and regions, serving engineering teams across the organization. The work is equal parts platform engineering and operational excellence — building automation, hardening security, establishing governance, and enabling consuming teams to adopt these platforms effectively. You'll also help shape what comes next as the team's scope grows.
We're hiring at all seniority levels — scope and compensation adjust accordingly.
What You'll Do:
Run production infrastructure - Deploy, upgrade, and maintain platform services across multiple clouds and regions on Kubernetes.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines - Make it safe and fast to ship infrastructure changes using GitOps workflows and release automation.
Build control planes - Create the APIs and tooling that make provisioning and scaling repeatable and self-service.
Own capacity planning - Track usage, forecast growth, right-size clusters, and keep infrastructure costs in check.
Build observability - Set up metrics, dashboards, and alerts using Prometheus and Grafana. Write runbooks that make on-call clear and actionable.
Own on-call and incidents - Join the on-call rotation, resolve issues, write postmortems, and turn repeat problems into automation.
Automate everything - Deployments, upgrades, certificate rotations, failover. If you do it by hand more than once, automate it.
Driving system reliability by blending software engineering principles with AI-driven automation, moving from reactive firefighting to proactive, automated operations.
Harden security - set up auth, encryption, secret rotation, and network policies. Keep dependencies patched and CVEs resolved.
Own disaster recovery - Build backup strategies, test failover, and make sure platforms can survive infrastructure failures.
Enable other teams - Provide templates, patterns, and direct support to help engineering teams use platforms reliably.
Collaborate across teams - Collaborate with Infrastructure, SRE, and Data Services on shared operational problems.
What You'll Need:
8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
Hands-on experience running stateful distributed systems on Kubernetes in production.
CI/CD experience - Building and owning pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Tekton, or similar tools.
Infrastructure-as-code skills - Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane, no manual configuration.
GitOps experience - ArgoCD or Flux for managing infrastructure deployments.
Observability skills - Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing tools like Jaeger or OpenTelemetry.
Database operations - Backup, restore, schema management, and performance tuning for relational and NoSQL databases.
Security mindset - You implement auth, encryption, secret management, and network policies as part of normal work.
Multi-cloud or multi-region experience - you have managed infrastructure across providers or regions.
Able to work in our Sunnyvale office 2+ days per week
Bonus Points:
Experience running security platforms or telemetry pipelines at large scale.
Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service tooling.
Familiarity with service mesh tools like Istio or Linkerd.
Experience running workflow orchestration platforms like Temporal or Argo Workflows.
Experience running distributed tracing or telemetry infrastructure at scale.
Experience with disaster recovery automation for stateful systems.
Background at a cybersecurity or high-availability SaaS company.
Contributions to open-source projects or the broader tech community.
Go proficiency - our platforms and services are primarily written in Go.
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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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CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $120,000 - $180,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.
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