Backend Engineer III - Falcon NG-SIEM, Global Serverless Platform
Job Summary
Job Description
- Experience in software development and pragmatic tradeoffs.
- Fluency in functional and object-oriented programming.
- Passion for or personal interest in distributed systems.
- Experience programming in Golang.
- Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience with Kafka.
- Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
5 skills required
Job Details
As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day. We have 3.44 PB of RAM deployed across our fleet of C* servers - and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.
About the Role:
CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Engineer III for the NG-SIEM (next generation security information and event management) Global Serverless Platform team in Aarhus, Denmark. The Global Serverless Platform team is responsible for building and operating the global- and region-level automation that will automatically manage the industry’s largest event data store and search system.
Our goals are to scale to 100s of PB of data ingress per day, while maintaining best-in-class ingest, search, and detection SLAs, as well as a best-in-class cost structure.
The team that you will be a part of owns the regional control plane layer, as well as account provisioning systems and region-level integrations with the rest of the Falcon platform.
You will be joining a distributed team of highly collaborative engineers who share a strong passion for the product. In this role you will get a chance to work on hard engineering problems that do not have well-defined solutions. You will become one of the go-to experts of the NG SIEM control plane, and will have a broad understanding of the entire NG SIEM data plane fleet..
The team’s vision is to build a zero-touch, highly refined, self-service model of a data plane.
Teams in NG SIEM have a great amount of autonomy, and own a part of the NG SIEM experience, from ideation and development to deployment and feedback. This includes ensuring high quality of the features they deliver, by writing automated tests, and performing manual tests. Moreover, we do not just throw over features to our operations teams, but we constantly observe and monitor new features in production.
An important part of our work is making sure that our platform continues to be the most effective and reliable in terms of efficiency, while also ensuring the stability of the platform. Some of the critical elements that the team is working on improving is our hardware and fleet utilization across 400k CPU cores. The team is also working with our internal asset storages and enabling other teams in managing the NG SIEM dataplane. You will be playing a crucial role in ensuring that the NG SIEM dataplane can continue with its successful durability and high availability.
Please note; this is a Hybrid Role (approx 3 days a week in our Aarhus Office) therefore candidates must be located within the Jylland/Jutland to ensure an accessible commute into our Aarhus Office
What You’ll Do:
Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues.
Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects.
Participate in scoping, designing and developing of new features and lead delivery of solutions to open-ended problems.
Contribute to moving the scalability of our LogScale engine to the next level.
Develop the control plane in Golang and extending the control plane capabilities to keep the scale with increasing scale of the platform while ensuring high availability.
Communicate technical decisions through design documents, technical talks and improving our internal documentation.
Provide technical advice on decisions, and research and propose new technologies.
Collaborate within the team on delivery of new solutions and support team members through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance.
Monitor and followup on features released in our production environments.
Troubleshoot critical production issues.
What You’ll Need:
A passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity of how our running systems are doing.
Experience in software development in general and the ability to juggle making pragmatic tradeoffs between short-time delivery needs vs long-term product goals.
Experience in contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services.
Fluency in both functional and object oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go.
A can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities.
Bonus Points:
Experience programming in Golang.
Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Experience with Kafka.
Hands on experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization.
Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products.
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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
Paid parental and adoption leaves
Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
Employee Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood groups and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.
CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.
If you need assistance accessing or reviewing the information on this website or need help submitting an application for employment or requesting an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance.
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About The Company
CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.
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