Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Data Services

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About the role

  • Senior Engineer for the Serverless Cell Platform at CrowdStrike, a leader in cybersecurity. Monitoring large-scale distributed systems to ensure high performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and maintain the health, performance, and reliability of our hyperscale cell infrastructure processing trillions of events daily
  • Lead incident response and problem management through established on-call rotations and structured feedback loops
  • Implement comprehensive monitoring with Service Level Indicators to enable proactive alerting and automated self-healing
  • Conduct capacity planning and forecasting based on ingest rates and query patterns to optimize resource utilization
  • Ensure data integrity and compliance across >100 PB of stored data through automated consistency checks and recovery testing
  • Manage access controls, certificate rotation, and vulnerability management across cell infrastructure according to defined SLAs
  • Provision and scale cell infrastructure (vertical/horizontal) based on demand and performance requirements
  • Develop microservices and automation tools for cell components, including ingest writers and management systems
  • Orchestrate version upgrades, patch management, and configuration changes with minimal customer impact
  • Perform load testing and performance benchmarking to validate scaling thresholds and optimize costs
  • Coordinate with fleet operations, product teams, and infrastructure teams on global changes and capacity planning
  • Create technical documentation, operational playbooks, and partner with teams to address customer-impacting issues
  • Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy, and knowledgeable colleagues
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing and releasing configuration and software
  • Troubleshoot complex issues across multiple large-scale distributed systems, including LogScale, Kafka, object storage systems, and related infrastructure
  • Work closely with Engineering and Customer Support to troubleshoot time-sensitive production issues, regardless of when they happen
  • Apply SRE best practices, including SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, and blameless post-mortems
  • Effectively utilize AI coding assistants (e.g., Anthropic Claude) to accelerate development and problem-solving.

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing and implementing distributed systems with high scalability, availability, and performance optimization at enterprise scale
  • Experience in contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services
  • A can-do attitude; you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities
  • Several years' experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux-based environments
  • Solid grounding in the technology of at least one cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience working with CI/CD, Jenkins Git, Artifactory, Bitbucket
  • Go (golang) programming experience in production environments
  • Some familiarity with Python programming
  • Experience with configuration management systems such as Chef or Ansible
  • Availability for on-call on a rotational basis
  • Bonus Points: Experience with Kafka
  • Bachelor's degree in an applicable field, such as Computer Science or Engineering.

Benefits

  • 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

Job title

Senior Software Engineer, Data Services

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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