Principal Engineer - Cloud - Policy; Remote

Crowd Strike, Inc.

Full time

R25276

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 also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every Crowd Striker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. 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.

We’re building a welcoming & flexible team that prizes collaboration over competition, one which provides opportunities to learn new skills, mentor junior and senior developers and contribute to the direction of both the team & the products for which we’re responsible. This is a high trust environment where we allow team members to manage their own time, take holidays as they need it and reward them with competitive salaries and equity.

Crowd Strike is seeking a Principal Engineer for our Policy Management team. As a key technical leader in our organization, you will help drive architectural decisions, technical excellence, and innovation for the Policy team. The team is responsible for the cloud‑side software and user interfaces that provide configuration and settings information to the Falcon endpoint agent and other products within the Falcon platform.

Nearly every module of the Falcon platform offers customer‑manageable configuration options, and changes to these options are distributed to the endpoint fleet within minutes. You’ll be thinking about how to build and extend high‑quality systems that scale cleanly and reliably, and then realizing those ideas in code. The Policy Management team is involved across the entire product line and you’ll get to work closely with other groups across the company.

Crowd Strike is a computer security company, but we do not require candidates for this role to have prior security industry experience. We will mentor and train in security topics as needed. We do expect a strong interest in Crowd Strike’s mission and a willingness to engage with the needs of our product teams and customers.

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for the Policy Management team, driving end‑to‑end technical strategy, building technology roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and ensuring successful project delivery.
• Build and evolve cloud‑based systems to flawlessly manage and distribute configuration information to a fleet of millions of endpoints, collaborating with other cloud, front‑end, and endpoint developers.
• Brainstorm, design, and build collaboratively across multiple teams.
• Build elegant and performant solutions for complex technical problems across our tech stack.
• Read and critique code and pull requests in the multiple programming languages in use in our environment (including Go, Python, Unix shell, Typescript, C++, among others), and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members.
• Focus on continual learning, raising the bar for both yourself and your teammates.
• Leverage your understanding of engineering best practices, including topics such as appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean and our deployments are straightforward.
• Be an energetic “self‑starter” with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and when leading a team.
• Deliver and accept feedback with grace and courtesy.
• Collaborate on determining root causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent…