Principal Staff Engineer, AI Platform Research, Data Science
CrowdStrike
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This role pays more than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$222,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $178k versus about $187k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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CrowdStrike is a leading American cybersecurity technology firm, specializing in cloud-native endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and incident response.
CrowdStrike currently has 28 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $140,000–$215,000 across 28 roles with salary data.
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Sr. Platform Engineer, AI Infrastructure joins the AI Platforms team within IT Enterprise AI to bridge the gap between rapid prototyping and production-ready systems. This role focuses on building and operating the cloud, platform, deployment, identity, networking, security, and observability infrastructure for internal AI agents and services. You will design and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, oversee containerized workloads via Docker and Kubernetes, and develop CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or ArgoCD. Key responsibilities include implementing identity patterns with Okta and Vault, managing cloud networking across AWS and GCP, and establishing observability through Prometheus and Grafana. You will utilize Python, Go, or TypeScript to automate infrastructure while ensuring secure, scalable environments for AI-driven workloads. The role solves the challenge of productionizing experimental AI services into reliable enterprise platforms.
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Median $150000 from 32 postings across 22 companies.
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