Sr. Software Engineer, Data Query Platform; Remote

Sr. Software Engineer, Data Query Platform (Remote)

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As a global leader in cybersecurity, Crowd Strike protects the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. We are building a hyper‑scale data lake to help find bad actors and stop breaches. The data engineering 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 engineer, you will contribute to the full spectrum of our systems, from foundational processing and data storage to scalable pipelines, to frameworks, tools, and applications that make that data available to other teams and systems.

Your primary toolset will include Java microservices, Spark/Scala data processing (and some Flink), Kubernetes, and AWS native tooling. Your primary focus will be owning our new graph database, which you will have a significant hand in building.

• 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.
• Continuously 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.

• 10+ years of experience combined between backend/cloud development and data platform engineering roles.
• 5+ years of experience building data platform product(s) or features with Apache Spark, Flink or Iceberg, or with comparable tools in GCP.
• 5+ years of experience programming with Java, Scala or Kotlin.
• 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, Dynamo
  
  DB.
• Good test‑driven development discipline.
• Reasonable proficiency with Linux administration tools.
• Proven ability to work effectively with remote teams.

• Go
• Pinot or other time‑series/OLAP‑style database
• Iceberg
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• Parquet
• Protocol Buffers/GRPC

• Remote‑friendly and flexible work culture.
• 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.

Crowd Strike 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.

Crowd Strike 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…