Engineer II, 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. 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.

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 and Cassandra and LLMs.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance the capabilities of distributed cloud services. Keeping services 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 to any of the CI/CD tools and process such as Jenkins / 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
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

• 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

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

• 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
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