Sr. Software Engineer, LogScale Search; Hybrid

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 Log Scale 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.

• 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 Log Scale backend in Scala and extend our product to keep Log Scale 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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