Sr. Software Engineer - Data Query Platform Hybrid

Position: Sr. Software Engineer - Data Query Platform Hybrid)
As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily.

Our customers span all industries, and they count on Crowd Strike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. Crowd Strikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation.

We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented Crowd Strikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters?

The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

The data engineering team is on a mission to create a hyper scale data lake, which helps find bad actors and stop breaches. The team builds and operates systems to centralize all of the data the falcon platform collects, making it easy for internal and external customers to transform and access the data for analytics, machine learning, and threat hunting.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will contribute to the full spectrum of our systems, from foundational processing and data storage, through scalable pipelines, to frameworks, tools and applications that make that data available to other teams and systems.

Your primary toolset in your work will be Java microservices, Spark/Scala data processing (also some Flink), Kubernetes and AWS native tooling.

What You'll Do: ​Write highly fault-tolerant Java code within Apache Spark to produce platform products used by our customers to query our event pipelines/ingestion for insight into active threat trends and related analytics

Design, develop, and maintain ultra-high-scale data platforms that process petabytes of data Participate in technical reviews of our products and help us develop new features and enhance stability

Continually help us improve the efficiency and reduce latency of our high-performance services to delight our customers

Research and implement new ways for both internal stakeholders as well as customers to query their data efficiently and extract results in the format they desire

What You'll Need: 10+ years' experience combined between backend/cloud development and data platform engineering roles5+ years of experience building data platform product(s) or features with (one of) Apache Spark, Flink or Iceberg, or with comparable tools in GCP5+ years of experience programming with Java, Scala or Kotlin.

Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Proven experience owning robust feature/product design end to end, yourself, especially with vaguely defined problem statements or only 'loose' specs leading the way.

Proven expertise with algorithms, distributed systems design and the software development lifecycle

Experience building large scale data/event pipelines

Expertise designing solutions with relational SQL and No

SQL databases, including Postgres/MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB Good test driven development discipline

Reasonable proficiency with Linux administration tools

Proven ability to work effectively with remote teams"​Experience with the Following is Desirable:

GoPinot or other time-series/OLAP-style database

Iceberg Kubernetes Jenkins Parquet Protocol  Buffers/GRPC#LI-SN1

Benefits of Working at Crowd Strike:
Market leader in compensation and equity awards

Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs

Competitive vacation and holidays for…