Engineer III, OverWatch Labs (Remote)
CrowdStrike3 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with OverWatch engineers to build, develop, and maintain operational systems, projects, and tools.
- Build new components and extend existing systems to improve analyst effectiveness in security event analysis and hunting.
- Bring research projects into production and integrate them with OverWatch Labs systems.
- Develop scalable backend services, data-processing pipelines, and cloud-based distributed systems.
- Own and operate deployed systems, including participation in an on-call rotation.
- Work with a distributed team of remote employees across time zones and contribute to open-source projects.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience.
- Experience with Go or another backend and pipeline language such as Python, Ruby, Rust, or C++.
- Experience building web services with data-processing pipelines.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch.
- Understanding of messaging or queueing software; Kafka experience is helpful but not required.
- Linux skills and experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments.
- Understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges in cloud environments such as AWS.
- Knowledge of engineering best practices, testing paradigms, peer code reviews, and resilient architecture.
- Strong foundational knowledge of algorithms, software engineering, and operational research is preferred.
- Prior cybersecurity or intelligence experience and successful open-source authorship or contributions are bonus qualifications.
Benefits
- Base salary range for U.S. candidates is $120,000–$185,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, health insurance, 401k, and paid time off.
- Remote role with work performed on a distributed team across time zones.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays, plus paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities, employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
- The role may require periodic alcohol and/or drug testing during employment.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.