Software Engineering Manager - Observability (hybrid)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Aarhus, Ireland, Denmark

CrowdStrike is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Observability team. This role involves managing a team of engineers to build and scale distributed tracing and metrics platforms for internal use. The ideal candidate will have experience with observability tools (Otel, Prometheus), software development (Python, Go), and large-scale Linux environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage a growing team of engineers focused on building quality platforms.
  2. Participate in architecting large scale distributed tracing/metrics platforms for service teams at CrowdStrike.
  3. Participate in regular retros, capacity and planning meetings with your team, allowing team collaboration and discussions in a high fidelity manner.
  4. Be part of “lunch and learn” demos: for new POCs or design sessions to work out new architectures.
  5. Responsible for reviewing, providing feedback and approving new design proposals from your team.

Skills

Required

  • Experience in Observability and Tracing (Otel, Tempo, Sentry or similar solutions)
  • Experience in Observability and Metrics (Prometheus, Thanos 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

Nice to have

  • 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.
  • Contributions and involvement in OSS projects
  • Experience with being on-call
  • Knowledge of SRE, Devops and Gitops practices

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience in Observability and Tracing (Otel, Tempo, Sentry or similar solutions)
  • Experience in Observability and Metrics (Prometheus, Thanos or similar solutions)
  • Experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments.