Network Engineering Manager - Backbone and Cloud (Remote)

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: CrowdStrike is looking for an engineering manager with a solid track record of building and operating large-scale backbone and cloud connectivity for hybrid infrastructure to join our Network Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for optimizing and evolving our backbone and cloud network infrastructure for scale. What You’ll Do: Lead network engineering team and drive initiatives to scale our IP and Optical backbone while maintaining consistency and stability Drive technical roadmap, cloud connectivity strategy and budget Collaborate with internal service partners and advance the IP and Optical network architecture to meet our evolving service requirements Actively engage with external vendors to discuss roadmap alignment, validate new designs or platforms, and lead post-mortem discussions on recent issues Drive operational excellence and best practices in operating and scaling infrastructure Drive backbone network automation strategy and development Develop tools to enhance consistency across multiple hybrid clouds Drive the development, testing and integration of new hardware and software platforms. Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations What You Need: 7+ years of experience in operating multi-vendor hyper-scale IP and Optical backbone, data center networks and public cloud networks (AWS, GCP, OCI, or equivalent) Proven track record in managing global engineering teams and leading initiatives independently with minimal supervision Expert in large scale backbone networking technologies and protocols such as DWDM, ROADM, MP-BGP, MPLS, RSVP, Segment Routing, IS-IS, QoS, MACsec Experience with optical networks, core…