Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Cloud & Security

CrowdStrike Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Paid time off and holidays

Parental and adoption leaves

Professional development

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. is building the next-generation infrastructure and security platform for its OverWatch Labs team. You will help advance the OWL platform, processing trillions of events daily and integrating research into production.

You’ll work in a distributed, remote-friendly environment with on-call duties and a strong emphasis on quality, scalability, and open source collaboration. This role supports Go and Python backends on AWS in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience.
• Experience with Golang or other web backend languages.
• Built web services with data processing pipelines.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Improve the OWL platform and tools for analysts.
• Deploy research projects into production and integrate with OWL systems.
• Operate in a DevOps environment with on-call responsibilities.
• Collaborate across a distributed, time-zone-spanning team.
• Design scalable, robust backend services and APIs.

Skills

Golang

Python

Distributed systems

DevOps

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Postgres

ElasticSearch

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

CrowdStrike Inc. is building the next-generation infrastructure and security platform for its OverWatch Labs team. You will help advance the OWL platform, processing trillions of events daily and integrating research into production.

You’ll work in a distributed, remote-friendly environment with on-call duties and a strong emphasis on quality, scalability, and open source collaboration. This role supports Go and Python backends on AWS in a fast-paced setting.