Senior Engineer II - Cloud

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:

LogScale is a CrowdStrike product for observability and log management, and a very central piece of CrowdStrike's NG-SIEM offering. With LogScale, our customers gain insights into log events from all thinkable log data-sources and are able to search these ingested log data efficiently. Our log monitoring tool gives automated insights into observability as well as security questions. We operate in the scale of millions of transactions per second, with a daily ingest of several PB of new data.

We are looking for a Senior II Engineer, Cloud to join the LogScale IO team. As a Senior II Engineer you will get bottom-up ownership of central parts of our codebase, and you will drive our code and architecture, and are expected to deliver features of the highest quality.

The team owns our ingest pipeline, as well as some of our more advanced exfiltration and alerting features. Currently, we are faced with the challenges of joining separate streams of data, all having several PB of data per day, with the unknown of when join keys will emerge in the streams. This join has to be part of the ingest process, aiming for minimal impact on resource allocation and ingest latency. As a person, you thrive in working with unknowns, hunting impossible goals, and making the best possible tradeoffs - communicating the tradeoffs clearly to the organization.

Our primary language is Scala, but with parts written in GoLang. We expect you to have experience with different language paradigms and have experience with cloud computing in general. You should have a good understanding of the JVM, its memory models and be able to investigate issues on any level within the JVM. We also expect you to be familiar with the ecosystem around the JVM with frameworks like Kafka.

As a Senior II Engineer, you will also be responsible for fostering a collaborative culture within the team, driven by trust and support, and are expected to engage in the development of your fellow peers. You are expected to drive cross-team collaborations and gain an understanding beyond the responsibilities of the team, spotting opportunities where we can contribute to the overall goals for CrowdStrike.

The work is challenging, but you get the possibility to create your everyday work life. With us, you have great flexibility to prioritize off-work commitments. We've found this to be the perfect mix, so if you see yourself as a great match, we'd love nothing more than for you to join us. We strongly encourage ownership and commitment from the employees in every team, and your inputs are always welcome. In general, you will experience a trusting culture throughout - from top to bottom.

What You'll Do:

• Deliver and take ownership for features and optimizations to LogScale within the IO domain.
• Scope requirements with stakeholders.
• Be proactive in identifying opportunities for improvements and new features throughout the organisation, and communicate this clearly to drive prioritization.
• Work closely with friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable product managers and software development colleagues both in person and remotely in North America and Europe throughout the organization.
• Monitor and follow-up on features released to customers both on-prem and in our cloud environments.
• Write performant, robust and testable code.
• Do best practices in software development; code review, automated tests, and incremental improvements.

What You'll Need:

• An MSc or Phd in Computer Science, IT engineering or similar relevant experience.
• 10+ years experience in developing cloud applications.
• Experience in software development in general and the ability to juggle making pragmatic tradeoffs between short-time delivery needs vs long-term product goals.
• Experience in contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services.
• A can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities.

Bonus Points:

• Experience programming in Scala and/or Go
• Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with Kafka
• Strong debugging skills
• Experience developing complex software applications
• Hands on experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
• 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 Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood groups and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

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