Sr. DevOps Engineer - Cloud, XSPM (Hybrid, ISR)

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. 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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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.

#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:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer within the XSPM team, you will be a critical, go-to technical expert responsible for the health, performance, and evolution of our database and infrastructure systems. When production databases degrade or behave unexpectedly, you are the person who dives deep, investigating root causes hands-on, understanding the underlying mechanics of the problem, and designing lasting solutions. Your mastery of database systems makes you the authority the team relies on to diagnose complex performance issues, architect better data solutions, and ensure our infrastructure scales with confidence.

Beyond databases, you will drive our DevOps practices end-to-end — CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and operational reliability across the XSPM platform. This is a high-impact, highly visible role at the intersection of database engineering and DevOps, where your expertise directly shapes how the team delivers and operates at scale.

We're a highly collaborative, friendly, inclusive and diverse group that prizes collaboration over competition. We provide opportunities to learn new skills, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to the direction of both the team and the products for which we're responsible. We work in a distributed, high-trust environment where you manage your own time and have the flexibility to balance your work and personal life.

What You Will Do:

• Serve as the team's database expert, the first person to investigate, diagnose, and resolve complex performance problems across our production database systems (MongoDB, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Cassandra).
• Perform deep-dive root cause analysis on database performance issues, understanding query execution internals, resource consumption patterns, cluster behavior, and system-level interactions to identify the real source of problems, not just symptoms.
• Design and propose better database architectures and solutions, recommending when to re-architect data models, migrate workloads, introduce new technologies, or redesign how services interact with their data layer.
• You will put in every effort within the team to ensure the data architecture is well designed.
• Own capacity planning, scaling strategies, and high-availability designs for database clusters, ensuring systems are built to handle the team's growth trajectory.
• Act as the bridge between development and infrastructure, advising engineers on how their application patterns impact database performance and guiding them toward sustainable solutions.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes manifests), and automated deployment workflows for the xspm team's services.
• Design and manage observability stacks, dashboards, alerting rules, and SLOs, to maintain best-in-class availability for critical data pipelines and services.
• Drive infrastructure automation to reduce operational toil, including automated scaling, self-healing systems, and configuration management.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews, driving root-cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements.
• Evaluate and adopt new database technologies and infrastructure tooling that align with the team's evolving data architecture needs.
  
  

What You Will Need:

• 7+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, DBA, or infrastructure engineering, with significant hands-on responsibility for production database systems at scale.
• Expert-level knowledge of a common DB such as MongoDB, Opensearch, Postgress, deep understanding of its internals, performance characteristics, replication, sharding, and the ability to diagnose and solve complex issues from first principles.
• A problem-solver's mindset — you don't stop at "the database is slow." You investigate why, trace the root cause across application, query, and infrastructure layers, and design the fix.
• Strong experience with at least one additional database technology (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis, or similar).
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go, etc) for building automation, tooling, and operational scripts.
• Deep experience with containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker) and cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent).
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or similar).
• Solid understanding of networking, Linux systems administration, and security hardening practices.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field.
  
  

Bonus Points:

• Experience with ETL pipeline operations and data flow orchestration at scale.
• Familiarity with Kafka operations and streaming data infrastructure.
• Experience with time-series databases or graph databases.
• Contributions to open-source database tooling or infrastructure projects.
  
  

Benefits Of Working At CrowdStrike:

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
  
  

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

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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.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with ETL pipeline operations and data flow orchestration at scale.
• Familiarity with Kafka operations and streaming data infrastructure.
• Experience with time-series databases or graph databases.
• Contributions to open-source database tooling or infrastructure projects.