Principal Engineer – Network

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $195k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🛜 Network Engineer / Network Administrator

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CrowdStrike

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2011

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-based security services to stop breaches. It is recognized as a leader in endpoint protection, identity and cloud security, and managed detection and response. CrowdStrike's platform, Falcon, integrates artificial intelligence to offer real-time visibility, detection, and protection against sophisticated cyber threats. The company is lauded for its effectiveness in securing networks and data, making it a trusted partner for businesses worldwide.

📋 Description

• Own the IP and optical architecture for CrowdStrike's global backbone, including connectivity to traditional and neocloud providers • Set the multi-year roadmap governing network evolution, including traffic engineering strategy, capacity planning, and demand forecasting • Drive major initiatives from funding case through implementation and long-term operational stewardship • Act as the senior escalation resource in the 24x7 on-call rotation for major incidents • Own platform selection for routing and optical hardware • Work directly with vendor engineering teams to influence their roadmaps • Engage director- and VP-level stakeholders across datacenter, application, and business teams • Set the direction for network automation, infrastructure-as-code, telemetry, and analytics strategy • Apply frontier and open-weight AI models to telemetry analysis and automated triage while keeping sensitive backbone data in-house • Review senior engineers' designs and set technical standards • Mentor senior engineers toward the principal level

🎯 Requirements

• US Citizenship or Green Card holder status • 12+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale backbone networks, with ownership of architecture at global scale • Deep expertise in IP/MPLS core technologies: IS-IS, MP-BGP, segment routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6), PE/P architectures, MPLS-TE, VRFs, DDoS mitigation, CDN • Deep expertise in optical transport: DWDM, coherent optics (400G/800G), ROADM architectures, amplifier design (EDFA/Raman), dispersion management, alien wavelengths • Strong grounding in cloud networking: direct connectivity, multi-cloud routing, and hybrid cloud at scale across AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure, and neoclouds • Working depth in adjacent infrastructure domains including virtualization, containers, databases, message queuing, and large-scale provisioning • Proven ability to set network automation and IaC strategy • Familiarity with applying frontier and open-weight AI models to network operations, including self-hosting open-weight models where data sensitivity requires it • Experience operating or architecting networks within FedRAMP-authorized environments • Track record of selecting, testing, and deploying networking hardware and software organization-wide across major vendors including Juniper, Infinera, Nokia, Arista, and Cisco • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience • Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Health insurance • 401k • Paid time off • Eligibility for bonuses • Equity grants