Backend Engineer

CrowdStrike; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm is seeking an Engineer for their OWL team to build and maintain scalable data platforms and tools. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science and experience with Go and cloud environments. Responsibilities include collaborating on operational systems and improving platforms for analysis and hunting. This role requires strong technical skills and offers competitive benefits in a supportive work culture.

Benefits

Market leader compensation

Wellness programs

Competitive vacation

Professional development opportunities

Great office culture

Qualifications

• Experience with Golang or similar languages for web backends.
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud environments.
• Linux skills in business-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to build and maintain operational systems.
• Extend current systems and build new components.
• Integrate research projects with OWL systems.

Skills

Communication skills

Adaptability

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Go (Golang)

Python

AWS

Postgres

Kubernetes

Job description

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. 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.

Engineer – OWL

We're building the next-generation infrastructure and security platform for CrowdStrike. The OverWatch Labs (OWL) team builds the platform and tools for our analysts on the OverWatch team to process and hunt (identify potentially harmful activity) through trillions of events per day, and growing.

We are looking for an engineer who wants to help move the OWL platform forward as we scale even further. Someone with a broad range of computer skills throughout the software stack and clear communication skills would thrive in this environment. You should love working on large-scale, distributed, cloud-based, highly available systems that can efficiently operate over trillions of events per day.

Team Culture

Stay humble. Stay positive. Stay hungry.

• Exhaustively passionate: We can’t emphasise this enough. We love what we do, and feel our work is making a notable impact and difference on a global and geopolitical scale.
• Strong work ethic: We work extremely hard, not just smart. It’s essential to our success. Be ready to be dedicated and focused.
• Team player: Our success and failures are shared together. We learn from each other. We help each other to grow and develop. We take constructive criticism gracefully and give credit where credit is due.
• Learner: Be willing to learn, to seek truth, and understanding. Take the initiative to acquire knowledge and investigate questions you might have.
• Adaptable/Agile/Flexible: Nothing ever goes according to plan, be prepared to do any task necessary that benefits and contributes to the team success (i.e. low-level data entry to high-level research design and experimentation)

About the Role

We are looking for an engineer to work on building and maintaining scalable data infrastructure/platforms and tools for our team. Someone with foundational knowledge in algorithms, software engineering/development and operational research is highly preferred. In short, someone who has the technical groundwork, ready to gain experience and communicates well with others.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with OverWatch engineering members to build, develop, and maintain operational systems, projects, and tools.
• Be comfortable with projects to build new components and extend the current system.
• Help the OverWatch team become more effective in their analysis and hunting by improving the platform and tools.
• Bring research projects into production environments and integrate them with the OWL systems.
• Work in a DevOps environment where you (and your team) are responsible for the systems you deploy. This will involve an on-call rota.
• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Have a desire for quality and understand what tools and processes you need to reach that level and help the team reach a higher bar.
• Be an adaptable and flexible engineer who is constantly learning and enjoys tackling complex and novel challenges.
• Use and give back to the open source community.
• Work as part of a distributed team of remote workers across timezones.

What You'll Use

• Go (Golang)
• Python
• AWS
• Postgres
• ElasticSearch
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Many external and internal APIs

What You'll Need

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience).
• Experience with Golang or another language for developing web backends and pipelines (such as Python/Ruby/etc) or compiled languages like Rust or C++.
• Built web-services with data processing pipelines and the concepts required.
• Experience with relational and noSQL databases (Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch a plus).
• Understanding of messaging or queueing software, Kafka experience helpful but not required.
• Linux skills and experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments.
• Understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, particularly in Cloud environments such as AWS.
• The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.

Bonus Points

• Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.
• Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch…
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

Bring your experience in distributed technologies and algorithms, your great API and systems design sensibilities, and your passion for writing code that performs at extreme scale. You will help build a platform that scales to millions of events per second and Terabytes of data per day. If you want a job that makes a difference in the world and operates at high scale, you’ve come to the right place.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike

• 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 Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

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