Principal Engineer, Operational Excellence & Resilience

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.

About the Role:

The Technology Resilience Principal Engineer will lead CrowdStrike's Technology Resilience function within the Resilience Organization. This role drives the strategy and execution of resilience practices across CrowdStrike's technology stack, including infrastructure, applications, and products. Working in parallel with the Business Resilience team, this position creates and maintains comprehensive technical resilience standards and practices that ensure service reliability, system redundancy, and rapid recovery capabilities.

The Technology Resilience Principal provides dedicated support specifically for our technology business units, ensuring enterprise-wide consistency in how we apply resilience standards across infrastructure, applications, and products. As a senior individual contributor, this position serves as the central "hub" in our hub-and-spoke model for technology resilience, partnering with technology business units for implementation and operational delivery.

With potential to grow as the function matures, this role bridges the gap between our established enterprise resilience capabilities and the specialized needs of our technology organizations.

What You'll Do:

• Cross-Organizational Coordination: Facilitate coordination between stakeholders across IT, Product, Engineering, and business units, serving as the central point for technology resilience initiatives and ensuring alignment with business objectives

• Enterprise Standards & Governance: Own and maintain enterprise-wide technology resilience standards, ensuring consistent implementation and reducing organizational drift from established frameworks across infrastructure, application, and product domains

• Technology Resilience Strategy: Drive comprehensive technical resilience architecture including infrastructure redundancy and fault tolerance, application resilience and graceful degradation strategies, and chaos engineering frameworks for continuous resilience validation

• Disaster Recovery Leadership: Lead enterprise technical recovery strategy development and implementation, including backup and redundancy systems, recovery time/point objectives (RTO/RPO) for technical systems, and data recovery/restoration procedures

• Product Performance and Scalability: Partner to define and implement resilience standards, including feature flagging, release, testing, multi-tenancy frameworks, and scalability frameworks to manage growth

• Risk Oversight & Metrics: Provide technical oversight and aggregation of technology resilience risks across the enterprise, establishing and monitoring key performance indicators including system uptime

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Resilience Engineering Leadership: Drive chaos engineering and resilience testing programs, establishing enterprise-wide practices for proactive resilience validation and continuous improvement

• Shared Tooling Strategy: Own shared resilience tooling strategy, evaluation, and implementation to support enterprise-wide capabilities including monitoring, testing, and recovery automation

• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain formal networks with key constituents across business units, engineering teams, and external partners

• Crisis Leadership: Serve as senior technical advisor during major incident response, providing expertise on technical recovery strategies and coordinating cross-functional recovery efforts

• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Drive innovation in resilience practices, identifying emerging technologies and methodologies to advance CrowdStrike's competitive resilience advantage

• Mentorship & Knowledge Transfer: Provide strategic guidance and expertise to junior team members and cross-functional partners on resilience engineering best practices

What You'll Need:

• Experience: 10+ years of direct experience in technology resilience, disaster recovery, site reliability engineering, or related technical disciplines, with demonstrated expertise in enterprise-scale cloud-native environments

• Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of infrastructure redundancy patterns, application resilience design, chaos engineering principles, and enterprise disaster recovery strategies across hybrid cloud architectures

• Product Resilience Knowledge: Proven experience with feature management systems, progressive deployment strategies, multi-tenant architecture resilience, and scalability engineering practices

• Leadership & Strategy: Proven ability to drive strategic initiatives across large technology organizations, with experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading complex, cross-functional resilience programs

• Metrics & Analytics: Experience establishing and monitoring resilience KPIs, including system uptime, MTTR, RTO/RPO objectives, and deployment success metrics

• Certifications: Advanced certifications in disaster recovery, cloud architecture, or site reliability disciplines (e.g., DRCS, CISSP, AWS/Azure/GCP architecture certifications)

• Communication: Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including experience developing and delivering strategic briefings to executive leadership and technical teams

• Problem Solving: Advanced analytical and conceptual thinking abilities, with proven track record of solving complex, ambiguous resilience challenges with enterprise-wide impact

• Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to build formal networks and influence stakeholders across engineering, product, and business organizations

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Risk/Resilience, or equivalent practical experience

• Availability: Ability to provide leadership support during crisis events, including nights and weekends when required

Bonus Points:

• Experience leading technology resilience functions in high-growth, cloud-native technology companies

• Advanced knowledge of chaos engineering tools and practices (Chaos Monkey, Litmus, Gremlin, etc.)

• Experience with modern resilience patterns including circuit breakers, bulkheads, and progressive delivery

• Background spanning infrastructure operations, site reliability engineering, and product engineering

• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms supporting resilience objectives

• Advanced data analytics and visualization experience for resilience metrics and reporting

• Deep knowledge of compliance frameworks (ISO27001, ISO22301, SOC2, NIST, FedRAMP) and their intersection with technical resilience

• Experience scaling resilience programs and building high-performing resilience engineering teams

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture

• 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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