Sr. Engineer, Data Services Control Plane (Remote)

Job Description

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike 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 CrowdStrike 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 CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers 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 Services Control Plane team builds and operates a polyglot infrastructure at petabyte-scale across myriad clouds. Our work enables the highly-available transport, storage and access of data products delivering our award-winning endpoint protection solution. We operate a very large number of Cassandra, Kafka, Opensearch, MySQL, Postgres and Valkey clusters and develop the underlying tooling to automate and simplify administration and support activities.

If that sounds exciting to you, read on! As a Data Services Control Plane Senior Engineer, you’ll focus on designing and developing robust software solutions that power our distributed data platforms. You’ll write clean, maintainable code that enables automation, scalability, and reliability across our infrastructure.

This role emphasizes software development expertise while working with large-scale data systems. What You’ll Do: Design and implement scalable, high-performance software solutions for our distributed data platforms Write production-quality code (primarily Golang, Java and Python) to build applications and APIs that automate infrastructure management Ability to analyze and debug unfamiliar codebases and dependencies written in Java, Golang and Python, including third party applications upon which development and service teams rely.

Develop and maintain microservices that interact with our data platform components. Create robust data processing pipelines that handle petabytes of security telemetry. Implement software solutions that monitor and optimize performance across our distributed systems.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new features and capabilities. Design and develop RESTful APIs and service interfaces for internal and external consumption. Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.

Troubleshoot complex software issues in production environments. Write comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure code quality. Use Chef to deploy, configure and manage servers and applications.

Be responsive to and troubleshoot time-sensitive production issues, regardless of when they happen. Maintain an understanding of the data components – including Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and Kafka, and use that understanding to operate and automate properly configured clusters. Work with Engineering to roll out new products and features.

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