Job Description

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. We have 3.44 PB of RAM deployed across our fleet of C* servers - 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 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:

We are looking to hire a Senior Cloud Engineer to help develop our third party ingest pipelines to build the best in class Next-Gen SIEM. You will be a part of the Platform group and help build the systems that control ingestion for third party data at petabyte scale. You will interact with product managers and other engineers in building both internal and external facing services.

You will be responsible for building fault tolerant, high scalable cloud systems using Golang.

What You’ll Do:

• Build the services that control third party ingest pipelines processing petabytes of data.

• Research, brainstorm, communicate and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams

• Understand our products to improve architecture, user experience, performance and stability

• Work with industry-leading technologies like Golang, Kafka, Postgres, Grafana and k8s.

• Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects

• Have autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment

• Troubleshoot and debug critical production issues

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience

• 9+ years of relevant work experience

• Golang/Java/Python experience with strong debugging skills 

• Hands on experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization

• Experience with event streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ)

• Experience with NoSQL and Relational DB’s

• Experience in building data platforms at scale

• Experience working in Linux

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes based development and orchestration.

• Contributed to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)

• Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.