CrowdStrike
Sr. Backend Engineer, LogScale Search (Remote, East Coast)
CrowdStrike, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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Sr. Backend Engineer, LogScale Search (Remote, East Coast)
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CrowdStrike 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. 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 action data ingested every day, up to 10 years of retention, and dozens of millions of queries per hour across large sections of the data stored. What You’ll Do
Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues supporting each other through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance Lead by example on customer and product focus, as well as on hands-on operational excellence by monitoring and following up on features released to customers and troubleshooting critical customer issues. Deliver cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects by owning or participating in scoping, designing and developing of new features to open-ended problems Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extending our product to keep LogScale scale with increasing ingest and query load while ensuring high availability Collaborate with your peers across teams on defining and delivering new solutions, design documents, technical talks and improving our internal documentation We are a remote first company so you must bring your excellent verbal and written communication skills to bear when you are working with teams across the globe What You’ll Need
A passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity of how our running systems are doing 6+ years 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 Fluency in both functional and object oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go A can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when complex distributed services Ability to communicate and articulate technical concepts crisply 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, and optimization - over 1 trillion requests per day or more than 10 PB of data per day Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products 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. CrowdStrike participates in the E-Verify program. Notice of E-Verify Participation Right to Work
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Sr. Backend Engineer, LogScale Search (Remote, East Coast)
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CrowdStrike 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. 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 action data ingested every day, up to 10 years of retention, and dozens of millions of queries per hour across large sections of the data stored. What You’ll Do
Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues supporting each other through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance Lead by example on customer and product focus, as well as on hands-on operational excellence by monitoring and following up on features released to customers and troubleshooting critical customer issues. Deliver cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects by owning or participating in scoping, designing and developing of new features to open-ended problems Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extending our product to keep LogScale scale with increasing ingest and query load while ensuring high availability Collaborate with your peers across teams on defining and delivering new solutions, design documents, technical talks and improving our internal documentation We are a remote first company so you must bring your excellent verbal and written communication skills to bear when you are working with teams across the globe What You’ll Need
A passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity of how our running systems are doing 6+ years 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 Fluency in both functional and object oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go A can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when complex distributed services Ability to communicate and articulate technical concepts crisply 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, and optimization - over 1 trillion requests per day or more than 10 PB of data per day Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products 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. CrowdStrike participates in the E-Verify program. Notice of E-Verify Participation Right to Work
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