Engineering Manager - Core Infrastructure (Remote)

The job

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Job description

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 the Role:

Our team builds the foundational platform that powers CrowdStrike's massive scale. We focus on creating self-service infrastructure-as-a-code primitives, ensuring high availability, and optimizing our cloud footprint to empower our engineering teams to move faster with confidence.

What You'll Do:

• Please note that if you are close to one of our office locations we would ask that you partake in a hybrid work schedule.
• Manage a growing team of engineers focused on building quality platforms.
• Participate in architecting large scale core infrastructure services for service teams at CrowdStrike.
• 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, providing feedback and approving new design proposals from your team.
• Help plan the product roadmap
• Drive cloud cost optimization efforts, balancing high-performance requirements with operational efficiency and budget awareness.
• Define and enforce standards for service deployments, ensuring consistency across our complex, multi-cloud environment.

• Experience in Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Salt or similar solutions)
• Experience in Provisioning & Orchestration (Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, Temporal or similar solutions)
• Experience with immutable architecture and distributed systems design.
• Experience in software development, design patterns, data structures and algorithms ( Python 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.
• Knowledge of SRE, Devops and Gitops practices
• 8+ years industry experience
• Experience in building and managing reusable infrastructure modules and internal developer platforms (IDP).
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLO management, error budget planning, and post-incident analysis.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

• 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.
• Experience with managing on-call
• 4+ years of experience as a people manager
• Led a team of Senior Engineers
• Proven track record of influencing engineering strategy beyond your immediate team, and acting as a technical consultant to other product engineering groups.

• 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

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How Arlington compares. Among the 100 largest places in Virginia, Arlington is #3 by population, #92 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #9 for remote work (#1 = most), #10 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Arlington County, is #1 of 133 counties for average pay ($122,856).

The place in numbers

Arlington has 236,254 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 2.7% of the population of Virginia. It covers 26 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 9,088 people per square mile. The median age is 35.5, 9% younger than the state median (35.5 against 39.0). It is a census-designated place: a community the Census Bureau counts as a unit, without a city government of its own, so services such as police, roads and zoning usually come from the county.

Housing

The median gross rent is $2,322 a month (rent plus utilities), 47% above the state median ($2,322 against $1,579). Over a year that is 19.6% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $895,000, which is 6.3 times the median household income ($142,114); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 41.3% of households own their home, 39% below the state average (41.3% against 67.3%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan area has 3,136,190 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $71,060 a year, 39% above the national median ($71,060 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are business and financial operations (369,190 jobs, median $105,260); management (319,760 jobs, median $165,010); office and administrative support (290,050 jobs, median $53,250). The area is most specialised in legal (2.6 times) and computer and mathematical (2.2 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are legal ($175,070) and management ($165,010). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Arlington County was 2.9%. 75.6% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Arlington County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 38.0% drive alone, 14.0% use public transit, 4.4% walk, 35.3% work from home. 14.7% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 17% below the state average (14.7% against 17.6%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

77.1% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 83% above the state share (77.1% against 42.2%). 22.4% of residents were born outside the United States, 71% above the state share (22.4% against 13.1%). The poverty rate is 7.4%, 25% below the state rate (7.4% against 9.9%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 78°F (25.8°C), and the coolest is Jan at 32°F (0.1°C). About 1,152 mm (45 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Jun is the wettest month (118 mm) and Jan the driest (67 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

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Career paths

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Cybersecurity (366) Data, analytics and AI (1991) Cloud, IT and infrastructure (504) Product management (412)

Distances

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