Sr. Engineer II, DevOps, NG-SIEM (Hybrid)

Austin, TX · full time · Senior

$160,000 – $250,000

Listed on CrowdStrike’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role leads reliability engineering across CrowdStrike's next-generation SIEM platform, treating scalability and observability as software problems rather than operations challenges. It suits senior platform engineers with deep distributed-systems experience who want to own end-to-end system health across complex, high-volume data pipelines.

Our summary, not CrowdStrike’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

U.S. citizen or permanent resident working from U.S. soil
10+ years in software, site reliability, or platform engineering with large-scale distributed systems experience
Proficiency in at least one systems language (Go, Java, Rust, C++)
Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash)
End-to-end observability experience including monitoring pipelines and SLI/SLO definition
Demonstrated incident diagnosis and resolution across multiple distributed components
Capacity planning and scaling experience for large infrastructure
Kafka or similar streaming platform experience
Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipeline familiarity
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience utilizing AI to enhance decision-making and workflows

Nice to have

Experience at hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) or large SaaS providers
Track record building automated remediation and self-healing infrastructure
Cost modeling experience for large compute and storage
Cloud-native and serverless architecture familiarity
Operating experience with platforms processing 1+ trillion events per day or 10+ PB daily
Log management or security operations background
Disaster recovery planning for multi-region systems