Backend Engineer III, LogScale Search, Engine (Hybrid)
CrowdStrike10 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop the LogScale backend in Scala to scale with increasing ingestion and query loads while maintaining high availability.
- Own or contribute to scoping, design, and development of cross-team platform initiatives for open-ended engineering problems.
- Monitor released features in production, troubleshoot critical customer issues, and demonstrate hands-on operational excellence.
- Collaborate across teams through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews, technical talks, and technical guidance.
- Write automated tests and perform manual testing to ensure the quality of delivered features.
- Improve LogScale’s scalability, event ingestion and querying efficiency, and cluster stability.
Requirements
- Experience with software development and pragmatic tradeoffs between short-term delivery and long-term product goals.
- Experience contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services.
- Fluency in functional and object-oriented programming and ability to learn new languages.
- Demonstrated operational excellence operating services spanning many components and geographic regions.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to individual contributors and management.
- Experience or personal interest in distributed systems and understanding how production systems operate.
- Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident.
- Scala programming experience, commercial cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, and Kafka experience are preferred.
- Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed architecture, high scalability and availability, optimization, or systems handling more than 1 trillion requests or 10 PB of data per day is preferred.
- Exposure to or experience with log management or cybersecurity products is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 2–3 days per week onsite at a posted location.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays.
- Paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
- Office culture with amenities.
- Health insurance, 401(k), paid time off, bonuses, and equity grants.
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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.