Sr. Engineer - Observability Tracing (Hybrid)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you. About CrowdStrike: CrowdStrike is the leader in cloud-delivered next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and pre- and post-incident response services.  With the ability to collect and process over 2 trillion events per week, CrowdStrike has revolutionized endpoint protection by being the first and only company to unify next-generation antivirus (AV), endpoint detection and response (EDR), and a 24/7 managed hunting service — all delivered via a single lightweight agent.  We are one of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies according to MIT, and one of Forbes Most Promising Companies. Our growth and innovation are driven by incredible employees who deliver unmatched customer success.

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.

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 You'll 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 Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency