Sr. Backend Engineer II, AutoScaling & Balancing, NG-SIEM (Hybrid)
CrowdStrike28 days ago
Austin, TX, USA +3 moreSenior
Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design intelligent customer-placement systems that efficiently bin-pack tenants while preserving capacity headroom.
- Build continuous auto-balancing systems that protect customer performance and maintain fleet health.
- Develop autoscaling systems that add and remove capacity based on real usage.
- Use per-tenant metrics such as memory, storage, throughput, and query cost to drive placement and scaling decisions.
- Understand LogScale data ingestion, storage, caching, and query internals to improve scaling models.
- Operate the systems built and apply rigorous reliability and incident-management practices.
- Deliver key platform features as an individual contributor while leading solutions to ambiguous scalability problems.
- Collaborate with technical leads and principal engineers on coherent LogScale platform strategy.
- Communicate effectively with globally distributed teams.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship or U.S. permanent residency is required.
- 12+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple software products, systems, or releases across their development lifecycles and multiple software stacks.
- 4+ years of experience as an engineer in a force-multiplying position delivering through others.
- At least 3 years of current hands-on experience owning a distributed system handling tens of billions of requests per day or more than 1 PB of data per day.
- Significant and continued impact on customer experience and business results.
- A track record of operational excellence for services spanning multiple components and geographic regions.
- Experience working with and developing strong remote engineering teams across geographies and cultures.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Hands-on development experience in Golang and Scala is preferred.
- Experience with at least one cloud environment such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is preferred.
- Expertise with Kafka is preferred.
- Experience with log management or cybersecurity products is preferred.
- Machine learning and data science familiarity and hands-on experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Market-leading compensation and equity awards.
- 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.
- Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities.
- Hybrid work at Sunnyvale, CA; Redmond, WA; New York City; or Austin, TX, with a strong preference for Austin.
- The role requires periodic additional background and fingerprint checks consistent with government customer requirements.
Tech Stack
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.