Sr. Backend Engineer, AutoScaling & Balancing, NG-SIEM (Hybrid)
CrowdStrike1 day ago
Austin, TX, USA +3 moreSenior
Base Salary
$140k - $220k/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 as workload changes.
- Develop autoscaling systems that add and remove capacity based on real usage.
- Use per-tenant memory, storage, throughput, and query-cost data to drive scaling and placement decisions.
- Understand LogScale ingestion, storage, caching, and query behavior to improve system models and decisions.
- Operate customer-impacting services with strong reliability and incident-response rigor.
- Deliver software as an individual contributor while leading solutions to ambiguous scalability problems.
- Align technical strategy across the LogScale platform with technical leads and principal engineers.
- Communicate clearly with globally distributed teams.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship or U.S. permanent residency is required.
- At least 7 years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple software products, systems, or releases across the development lifecycle and multiple software stacks.
- At least 4 years of experience as an engineer in a force-multiplying role 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 sustained 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 engineers in remote, globally distributed teams.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- 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—AWS, Azure, or GCP—is preferred.
- Kafka expertise, log-management or cybersecurity product experience, and machine learning or data science experience are bonus qualifications.
Benefits
- Market-leading compensation and equity awards.
- Physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays.
- Paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Employee networks, geographic groups, and volunteer opportunities.
- Office culture with world-class amenities.
- Hybrid work arrangement in Sunnyvale, Redmond, New York City, or Austin, with a strong preference for Austin.
- The base salary range is $140,000–$220,000 per year, with potential bonuses, equity grants, health insurance, 401k, and paid time off.
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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.