Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, Remote

CrowdStrike Inc.; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Paid parental and adoption leave

Professional development opportunities

Employee Networks and volunteer work

Vibrant culture and benefits

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking an engineer to help build and maintain scalable data infrastructure and tools for the OverWatch Labs platform. You’ll work on a next-generation security platform capable of processing trillions of events per day, collaborating with a distributed team across time zones.

You’ll use Go, Python, AWS, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, and various APIs to design and implement scalable backends and data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience).
• Experience with Go 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.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from testing paradigms to peer code reviews and resilient architecture.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 are responsible for the systems you deploy, including an on-call rota.
• Be an energetic self-starter with the ability to take ownership and accountability for deliverables.
• Have a desire for quality and understand tools and processes needed to reach that level and help the team raise the bar.
• Be an adaptable and flexible engineer who is constantly learning and tackles complex challenges.
• Use and contribute to the open source community.
• Work as part of a distributed team of remote workers across timezones.

Skills

Go

Python

AWS

Postgres

ElasticSearch

Kafka

Kubernetes

APIs

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science

Tools

Redis

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking an engineer to help build and maintain scalable data infrastructure and tools for the OverWatch Labs platform. You’ll work on a next-generation security platform capable of processing trillions of events per day, collaborating with a distributed team across time zones.

You’ll use Go, Python, AWS, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, and various APIs to design and implement scalable backends and data pipelines.