Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid — New York, NY, United States; other listed locations include Austin, Sunnyvale, and Redmond, United States.

Base salary: $160,000–$250,000 per year, plus potential bonuses and equity grants.

Company

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company developing an AI-native cloud security platform that processes nearly 3 trillion events per day.

What you will do

• Build, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams within the Core SRE organization.
• Drive collaboration across SRE, Development, Security, and Operations to improve system resilience.
• Partner with executives and peer leaders on strategic reliability initiatives, technical direction, and operational priorities.
• Lead organizational change management and initiatives that improve engineering processes and excellence.
• Guide architecture decisions affecting reliability and scalability across distributed infrastructure and products.
• Drive SRE best practices, reliability metrics, SLOs, automation, and infrastructure-as-code adoption.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Proven experience building, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience leading distributed teams in a remote-first environment.
• Proficiency in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and reliability engineering principles.
• Demonstrated success driving complex technical initiatives across organizational boundaries.
• Strong design, problem-solving, engineering excellence, quality, security, and performance skills.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills for partnering with senior leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Strategic thinking and ability to translate business objectives into technical roadmaps.
• Stakeholder management and executive communication excellence.
• Successful cross-functional collaboration experience.
• Change management and organizational development skills.
• Ability to build consensus and drive decisions across multiple teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility and autonomy.
• Competitive vacation and holidays, paid parental and adoption leave, and health benefits.
• Professional development opportunities for employees at every level.
• Wellness programs, employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
• Office culture with world-class amenities.