Sr. Engineer - Observability (Remote)

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​​#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About the Role:

CrowdStrike is hiring a Sr. Engineer - Observability to help take our observability and metrics to the next level. We are looking for a highly-technical, hands-on Engineer with experience using several open source projects commonly found in large-scale deployments. Our team works to develop infrastructure services to support the CrowdStrike engineering teams’ pursuit of a full DevOps model.

What You’ll Do:

• Ensure a reliable and tested platform that is capable of scraping over 7 TRILLION metric data points per day

• Architect, test and build a large scale Prometheus & Thanos based metrics platform

• Build, test and deliver kubernetes operators

• You will participate in 24x7 on-call rotations (monthly or bi-monthly)

• Participate in regular retros, capacity and planning meetings with your team, allowing team collaboration and discussions in a high fidelity manner.

• Be part of “lunch and learn” demos: for new POCs or design sessions to work out new architectures.

• Flexible working - with transparent communication, we encourage flexible working and a healthy work life balance.

• Responsible for reviewing new design proposals from your peers

What You’ll Need:

• Experience in Observability and Metrics (Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, Graphite or similar solutions)

• Experience in software development, preferably with building kubernetes operators using (Python, Bash or Golang)

• Experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments.

• Experience operating within the cloud, AWS & GCP preferred.

• Experience with TDD, CI/CD, Chaos Engineering or similar resilience and reliability practices for infrastructure development.

• 8+ years industry experience

Bonus Points:

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

• Rock solid communication skills, verbal and written.

• A combination of confidence and independence, with the prudence to know when to ask for help from the rest of the team.

• Contributions and involvement in OSS projects

• Experience with being on-call

• Knowledge of SRE, Devops and Gitops practices.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards with option to participate in ESPP in eligible countries

• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements

• Physical and mental wellness programs 

• Paid parental leave, including adoption 

• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities

• Access to CrowdStrike University, LinkedIn Learning and Jhanna

• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

• Birthday time-off in your local country

• Work with people who are passionate in our mission and Great Place to Work certified across the globe