Sr. Software Engineer II - Cloud Detection Engine (Hybrid, London)

CrowdStrike

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Market leader compensation and equity

Wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Paid parental and adoption leaves

Professional development opportunities

Employee networks and community groups

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certification

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Engineer II to join the Cloud Detection Engine (CDE) Platform. You will design, build, and scale foundational services that orchestrate data, content, and execution logic across CrowdStrike products, enabling real-time detection at internet scale.

You will lead backend engineering across CrowdStrike products, mentor teammates, and continuously improve architecture and performance in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience in distributed systems.
Strong understanding of scalability, partitioning, and concurrency.
Experience applying best engineering practices and code reviews.
Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making and workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead backend engineering efforts from prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
Build cloud-based systems for global detection and threat intelligence production.
Collaborate with multiple teams to define and implement platform features.
Mentor peers and contribute to technical knowledge sharing.
Continuously improve architecture, performance, and reliability of systems.
Own your work in a high-trust environment with autonomy.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go or C++

Cloud platforms

AI technologies

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

C++

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Kafka

Cassandra

Docker

Redis

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. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day 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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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.

The CrowdStrike Cloud Detection Engine (CDE) team is building a powerful, next-generation platform designed to be a force multiplier for security teams. Our platform empowers customers who leverage multiple Falcon products to create and manage advanced, unified detections and content. This core platform capability is a strategic imperative for CrowdStrike, aiming to provide a competitive advantage that is difficult to replicate, ensuring our customers have unparalleled detection and response capabilities across the entire Falcon ecosystem.

We build the real-time data systems behind CrowdStrike's detection pipeline. Our team owns the streaming engine that processes all first-party sensor telemetry and maintains a petabyte-scale graph of real-time system activity, and the distributed correlation engine that evaluates trillions of events a day to catch multi-stage attacks that no single event can surface. Both systems are at the core of how CrowdStrike finds adversaries.

We're looking for someone who is excited about working in systems programming: custom query languages, graph databases, state machines, performance work where microseconds matter. We ship fast, we build with modern tooling including AI in our dev workflow, and own everything end to end from design to production

About The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Engineer II to join the CDE Platform team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and scaling the foundational services that orchestrate data, content, and execution logic across CrowdStrike’s products (e.g., NGSIEM, FCS, Endpoint). You will be a key driver in creating a highly performant, scalable, and resilient platform that processes internet-scale data streams and enables real-time detection generation.

What You'll Do:

Lead backend engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products
Leverage and build cloud-based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intelligence production at a global scale
Brainstorm, define and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams
Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team
Be mentored and mentor other developers on web, backend, and data storage technologies and our system
Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability
Be given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment

The Technology Stack You’ll Use Will Include:

Go (Golang) or C++
AWS/GCP/Azure/Kubernetes
Kafka
GIT
Cassandra
Docker
Redis

What You'll Need:

Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
Understanding scalability and distributed systems i.e. sharding, partitioning, concurrency, etc
Being a team player
A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.
The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Points:

Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
Existing exposure to Go or C++, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch...
Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence field
Experience in thinking about, designing, or implementing programming languages and/or compilers
Interesting hobbies

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

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.

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Bonus Points:

Contributions to the open-source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging)
Existing exposure to Go or C++, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch...
Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence field
Experience in thinking about, designing, or implementing programming languages and/or compilers
Interesting hobbies