Sr. Engineer

Job Description

CrowdStrike is hiring a Sr. Engineer - Observability to help take our observability and tracing capabilities 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 Youll Do: Ensure a reliable and tested platform that provides comprehensive application performance monitoring and distributed tracing Architect, test and build a large scale observability platform leveraging Sentry and distributed tracing solutions Design and implement end-to-end tracing across microservices architecture 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 Youll Need: Experience in Observability, with focus on error tracking and distributed tracing (Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger or similar solutions) Experience in software development, preferably with building Kubernetes operators using (Python, Bash or Go) 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