Senior Cloud AI Systems Engineer

CrowdStrike Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leave

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. is a global cybersecurity leader, protecting people and organizations with an AI-native platform. We design AI-powered systems at scale in Sunnyvale, seeking engineers to build a greenfield product with agentic reasoning and robust distributed architecture.

Join a mission-driven team that values autonomy, responsible AI, and innovation, delivering reliable, scalable solutions for our customers and communities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production experience building and maintaining scalable systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Python or Java with distributed systems expertise.
• Experience shipping LLM-backed systems to production with ownership of reliability and cost.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a new product from the ground up with foundational architecture decisions.
• Build the distributed systems foundation for high-throughput data processing.
• Incorporate agentic capabilities that reason over real data and produce explainable results.
• Move AI capabilities from prototype to production, owning latency and cost.
• Design guardrails for safe autonomous reasoning in enterprise contexts.
• Turn open-ended problems into scoped, shippable increments.
• Set quality, testing, and observability standards while mentoring engineers.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Distributed systems

LLM in production

Agentic reasoning

Non-determinism handling

AI tooling

System design

Tools

Anthropic SDK

OpenAI SDK

AI development tools

Job description

CrowdStrike Inc. is a global cybersecurity leader, protecting people and organizations with an AI-native platform. We design AI-powered systems at scale in Sunnyvale, seeking engineers to build a greenfield product with agentic reasoning and robust distributed architecture.

Join a mission-driven team that values autonomy, responsible AI, and innovation, delivering reliable, scalable solutions for our customers and communities.