Sr. Software Engineer, Falcon NG-SIEM, FrontTier Expansions (Hybrid)
CrowdStrike1 day ago
Base Salary
$140k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own core services and libraries supporting multi-cloud LogScale fleet deployment and operation.
- Develop automation tooling and microservices for provisioning, upgrading, scaling, and operating infrastructure and platform components.
- Build observability tooling for tracing, profiling, alerting, SLOs, and fleet health monitoring.
- Architect capacity-planning, workload-forecasting, and dynamic-scaling solutions across heterogeneous cloud environments.
- Improve shared libraries and frameworks used throughout the NG-SIEM/LogScale platform.
- Design version-upgrade, patch-orchestration, and configuration-management systems that minimize customer impact.
- Implement security-first infrastructure designs covering authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit logging.
- Adopt GitOps and DevSecOps practices within CI/CD pipelines.
- Serve as a technical lead and liaison for infrastructure and platform capabilities.
- Deploy and troubleshoot services running in managed and self-managed Kubernetes clusters.
- Mentor engineers and promote reliable, scalable software and distributed-systems best practices.
- Participate in a global production-infrastructure on-call rotation and continuously reassess architecture, performance, and reliability.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role.
- At least 5 recent years developing microservices for a SaaS product using Go, Python, or a similar object-oriented/backend language.
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, OCI, or another major cloud provider, with the ability to learn additional platforms.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, scalability, and multithreading/concurrency.
- Experience building production microservices, automation tooling, or infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
- Production experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience with configuration-management or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Chef, Ansible, or Terraform.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, or Bitbucket.
- Understanding of networking concepts including VPCs, load balancers, and DNS.
- Understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, audit logging, testing, code review, and resilient architecture.
- Ability to mentor engineers, lead technical initiatives, communicate effectively across distributed teams, and own problems end to end.
- Availability for rotational on-call support and proven use of AI technologies to improve decisions, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Preferred qualifications include expert Go skills; experience with AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure, LogScale/Humio, Kafka, data lake or lakehouse architectures, Kubernetes operators or Helm, SRE practices, observability tools, cloud certifications, FinOps, open-source contributions, AI coding assistants, and a computer science degree or commensurate experience.
Benefits
- Market-leading compensation and equity awards, plus eligibility for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.
- Physical and mental wellness programs, health insurance, 401(k), vacation, holidays, and paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities, employee networks, neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
- Vibrant office culture with workplace amenities.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 2–3 days per week onsite at the Austin, Texas office.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureChefDatadogGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform
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.