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Sr. Backend Engineer, LogScale Search (Remote, East Coast)

CrowdStrike, New York, New York, United States

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CrowdStrike . CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity protecting people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission has been to stop breaches with an AI-native platform. We work on large-scale distributed systems, processing trillions of events per day. We seek talented CrowdStrikers who are passionate, autonomous, and committed to customers, our community, and each other. About The Role Our mission is to make all of our customers security-relevant data continuously available for automated detection and response, threat hunting, and other Falcon use cases. To enable this, the systems behind NG-SIEM are growing to accommodate >100 PB of event and data per day, up to 10 years of retention, and dozens of millions of queries per hour across large data stores. As a Senior Engineer on the LogScale Search team, you will deliver this scale by developing new features and improving existing functionality. You will join a distributed, collaborative team and work on hard engineering problems with high impact, driving a fast, reliable, best-in-class log storage solution. Teams in LogScale have autonomy and own parts of the experience from ideation to deployment and feedback, including ensuring high feature quality through automated tests and manual testing. We monitor production features with LogScale dashboards and strive for scalable ingestion, efficient data processing, fast queries, and cluster stability. What youll do includes work with a team of colleagues through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews, and technical guidance. You will take ownership of cross-team platform initiatives and deliver new features to address open-ended problems. What Youll Do Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy colleagues supporting each other through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance Lead by example on customer and product focus, and on operational excellence by monitoring and following up on features released to customers and troubleshooting critical customer issues Deliver cross-team platform-level initiatives by owning or participating in scoping, designing and developing new features Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extend the product to scale with increasing ingest and query load while ensuring high availability Collaborate with peers across teams on defining and delivering new solutions, design documents, technical talks and improving internal documentation Communicate effectively with teams across the globe as a remote-first company What Youll Need A passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity about how running systems operate 6+ years of software development experience with ability to balance short-term delivery needs and long-term product goals Experience contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services Fluency in both functional and object-oriented programming and ability to learn new languages quickly A can-do attitude and demonstrated ability to collaborate in a team and take on responsibilities Track record of operational excellence in complex distributed services Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to individual contributors and management Bonus Points Experience programming in Scala Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) Experience with compilers and language design Hands-on experience in large-scale distributed system architecture, high scalability and availability, handling >1 trillion requests per day or >10 PB of data per day Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products 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 Employee networks, geographic groups, and volunteer opportunities 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. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, disability, or other protected characteristics. If you need assistance accessing information or submitting an application, contact recruiting@crowdstrike.com. Seniority level

Mid-Senior level Employment type

Full-time Job function

Engineering and Information Technology Industries

Computer and Network Security

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