Sr. Software Engineer, LogScale Search (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Comprehensive wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certification

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Engineer for the LogScale Search team in Austin to deliver scalable backend features and maintain high availability. You will work with a distributed team to design, implement, and deliver solutions for petabyte-scale data ingestion and billions of queries per day.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, contribute to technical leadership, and apply AI-driven approaches to optimize decision-making and workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience in distributed systems and ability to reason about performance at scale.
• Strong software development background with balancing short-term delivery and long-term goals.
• Proven technical leadership across products or services.
• Fluency in functional and object‑oriented programming; ability to learn new languages quickly.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example with customer and product focus, and operational excellence by monitoring features released to customers.
• Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and scale to increasing ingest and query load with high availability.
• Collaborate across teams to define and deliver new solutions and improve internal docs.
• Communicate clearly with contributors and management across global teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software development

Functional & OO programming

Scala

Cloud platforms

Kafka

Communication

AI technologies

Collaboration

Operational excellence

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kafka

Job description

About the Role

Our mission is to make all of our customers’ security‑relevant data continuously available for automated detection and response, threat hunting, and other Falcon use cases. To enable this, the systems behind NG‑SIEM are growing to accommodate >100 PB of event and action data ingested every day, up to 10years of retention, and dozens of millions of queries per hour across large sections of the data stored.

As a Senior Engineer on the LogScale Search team, you will be responsible for delivering this scale to customers by developing new features as well as improving existing functionality. You will be joining a distributed team of highly collaborative engineers who share a strong passion for the product.

What You’ll Do

• Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues supporting each other through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance.
• Lead by example on customer and product focus, as well as on hands‑on operational excellence by monitoring and following up on features released to customers and troubleshooting critical customer issues.
• Deliver cross‑team platform‑level initiatives and projects by owning or participating in scoping, designing and developing new features to open‑ended problems.
• Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extend our product to keep LogScale scalable with increasing ingest and query load while ensuring high availability.
• Collaborate with peers across teams on defining and delivering new solutions, design documents, technical talks and improving our internal documentation.
• Bring excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborative work with teams across the globe.

What You’ll Need

• A passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity about how our running systems perform.
• Experience in software development and the ability to juggle pragmatic trade‑offs between short‑term delivery needs and long‑term product goals.
• Experience in contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services.
• Fluency in both functional and object‑oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go.
• A can‑do attitude, thriving in collaboration and not afraid to take on responsibilities.
• Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when operating services that span many components across several geographical regions; ability to communicate and articulate technical concepts crisply to individual contributors and management.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision‑making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• Bonus Points: Experience programming in Scala; Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP); Experience with Kafka; Hands‑on experience in large‑scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization over 1trillion requests per day or more than 10PB of data per day; Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products.

Benefits

• 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.

EEO Statement

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, termination and social/recreational programs—on valid job requirements.

Background Check

This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.

Application

Find out more about your rights as an applicant. CrowdStrike participates in the E‑Verify program. Right to Work. CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $140,000–$215,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401(k) and paid time off.