Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Remote

CrowdStrike Inc.; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Wellness programs

Professional development

Employee networks

Great place to work

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking an engineer to help build and scale the OverWatch Labs data infrastructure and tools. You’ll work on a distributed, cloud-based platform handling trillions of events daily and contribute to research-to-production initiatives.

Ideal candidates have Golang or similar backend experience, strong Linux/Cloud skills, and a knack for collaborating across time zones. This role emphasizes high scale, reliability, and impactful cybersecurity work.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience.
• Experience with Golang or another language for developing web backends and pipelines (Python, Ruby, Rust, C++).
• Built web-services with data processing pipelines and relational/noSQL databases (Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, Elasticsearch).
• Understanding of messaging/queueing software; Kafka experience helpful but not required.
• Linux skills and experience with large-scale Linux environments.
• Understanding of distributed systems and scalability in Cloud environments (AWS).
• Thrives in fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, iterative programming environment.
• Knowledge of engineering best practices from testing to peer reviews and resilient architecture.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with OverWatch engineering to build, develop, and maintain operational systems, projects, and tools.
• Work on new components and extend the current system to improve analysis and hunting capabilities.
• Translate research projects into production and integrate them with OWL systems.
• Operate in a DevOps setup with on-call responsibilities for deployed systems.
• Take ownership and be accountable for deliverables as a self-starter.
• Pursue quality and implement necessary tools and processes to raise the team’s bar.
• Remain adaptable and learn continuously while tackling complex challenges.
• Contribute to open source and collaborate with distributed teams across time zones.

Skills

Golang

Python

AWS

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Kubernetes

Linux

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

Redis

Postgres

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

Job description

CrowdStrike Inc. is seeking an engineer to help build and scale the OverWatch Labs data infrastructure and tools. You’ll work on a distributed, cloud-based platform handling trillions of events daily and contribute to research-to-production initiatives.

Ideal candidates have Golang or similar backend experience, strong Linux/Cloud skills, and a knack for collaborating across time zones. This role emphasizes high scale, reliability, and impactful cybersecurity work.