Sr. Software Engineer II - Cloud Detection Engine (Hybrid)
CrowdStrike1 day ago
Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes through large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
- Design, build, and scale cloud-based systems for attack detection and automated cyber threat intelligence production.
- Develop real-time streaming, graph, and distributed correlation systems that process internet-scale telemetry and events.
- Collaborate with engineers across multiple teams to define and build platform capabilities.
- Improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability.
- Mentor developers and contribute to end-to-end ownership from design through production.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or professional experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Understanding of scalability and distributed systems concepts such as sharding, partitioning, and concurrency.
- Experience with engineering best practices, testing paradigms, peer code reviews, resilient architecture, unit testing, and continuous integration.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, and iterative programming environment.
- Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Bonus qualifications include Go or C++, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, cybersecurity or intelligence experience, programming language or compiler design, and open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Base compensation includes eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, health insurance, 401k, and paid time off.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays, plus paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities for all employees.
- Employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 2–3 days per week onsite.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSAzureC++DockerElasticsearchGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesRedisScala
Categories
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike builds the Falcon cloud-native security platform used by enterprises and governments to protect endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data with EDR, next-generation antivirus, threat intelligence, and managed threat hunting. Founded in 2011 and publicly traded on NASDAQ as CRWD, the company sells primarily by subscription and also provides incident response services; its systems ingest and analyze nearly 3 trillion security events per day across customer environments.