Engineer III, Advanced Research; Remote

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. 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.

Crowd Strike's Advanced Research team is expanding. We develop innovative detection capabilities that enable Crowd Strike to stay ahead of the adversary and stop breaches. We’re looking to add a software engineer with experience building and maintaining cloud services. You’ll work within a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with Security, Data Science, Engineering, and Visualization experts, all working toward the goal of developing innovative solutions to long-standing challenges in security.

We provide opportunities for creativity, learning new skills, mentoring fellow engineers, and building technologies that meaningfully improve the protection we provide for our customers. We work in a distributed, remote‑first, high‑trust environment where you manage your own time.

• Work with industry‑leading technologies like Kafka, Flink, Redis, Elastic Search, Cassandra, and LLMs.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance the capabilities of distributed cloud services, keeping them up and running in a healthy state.
• Work closely with other internal engineering teams to integrate new capabilities into our Falcon platform.

• United States Citizenship or Permanent Residency is necessary to retain access to resources for this role (NO Clearance necessary).
• Computer science degree or commensurate experience.
• Programming expertise in at least one language. Java, Scala, Go, or Python experience is preferred.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, RESTful patterns, and multithreading concepts.
• Proficiency building and scaling services in production.
• Hands‑on experience with any of the CI/CD tools and processes such as Jenkins or Bamboo.
• Experience interacting with major cloud provider APIs to provision cloud infrastructure, and to monitor it (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Effective communication across functions and levels throughout the company.

• Familiarity with AWS, Kafka, Flink, Grafana.
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Hands‑on experience in large‑scale distributed system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization.
• Experience working in cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

• 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.

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

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…