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What this role is
This role operates and scales CrowdStrike's massive SIEM platform, managing hundreds of petabytes of security data daily across distributed cell-based infrastructure. It suits experienced reliability engineers who want to own critical infrastructure at extraordinary scale while building automation systems that enable self-healing at the frontier of cybersecurity data processing.
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What they ask for
Required
- 7+ years site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure operations
- Experience operating and improving distributed systems at scale
- Capacity planning, resource optimization, and scaling operations for large-scale infrastructure
- Proficiency in at least one programming language for automation (Go, Python, Java, or similar)
- Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, OCI, or GCP) including compute, storage, networking, and infrastructure-as-code
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for runbooks, incident reports, and cross-timezone collaboration
- Ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs between operational stability and feature delivery
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience building monitoring systems, defining SLIs/SLOs, creating dashboards, and implementing alerting
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across distributed system components
- Experience operating database infrastructure, log management platforms, search systems, or SIEM platforms at scale
- Track record of building automation that enables self-healing infrastructure and reduces operational toil
- Experience with streaming platforms (Kafka or similar) and understanding of distributed data pipelines, backpressure, and partition management
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, or similar)
- Background in cybersecurity, security operations, or familiarity with security data workflows
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making and streamline workflows