Mid/Senior Level Engineer - Distributed Systems OR C++ Experience (Remote)

Mid/Senior Level Engineer - Distributed Systems OR C++ Experience (Remote)

Apply locations: United Kingdom - Remote, Italy - Remote, Germany - Remote, Ireland - Remote, Romania - Remote

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 3 Days Ago

Job requisition id: R17921

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. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe, and their lives moving forward.

About the Role:

This is a Software Engineer position on our Cloud Platform team. The role is open to either full-time remote work or one of our office locations.

This role will contribute by collaborating to design and build a high-throughput system to partition, filter, query, and join streaming data at the scale of trillions of events per day. Customers of this system will rely on your work to generate everything from high-quality training data for large-scale machine learning models to actionable leads that threat hunters can use to track down malicious actors.

We’re looking for an engineer with strong experience in object-oriented development, solid computer science fundamentals around multithreading, memory, and data structures, and the desire to work on a distributed system at CrowdStrike scale. We are building a large distributed system (using both public cloud and datacenter components) and we rely primarily on C++ (C++17 currently) as our core language to achieve high performance and high throughput. If you are already comfortable in both those domains, you’ll be a great fit! If not, we are looking for a candidate who is either a solid C++ developer willing to learn about distributed systems OR a backend developer willing to dive into modern C++. As long as you’ve got a solid foundation and a willingness to grow, we’ll happily help you learn whatever new concepts, frameworks & languages are necessary.

What You'll Need:

• A background where you’ve designed, built, and operated scalable distributed systems
• Strong experience building production systems with C++
• Recent experience building production systems in a strongly-typed, object-oriented language (e.g. C++, Java, C#, or similar)
• Confidence operating and navigating a Unix/Linux machine with nothing but a command line
• Comfort with Git or similar version control workflows
• Ability to deal with ambiguity in a large, open-ended problem space
• A self-starter “can do” attitude to research solutions, coordinate with customers, collaborate with teammates, and solve hard problems with minimal oversight
• An open mind and willingness to learn the parts of our technology stack that are new to you

What You'll Use:

• C++
• Go (Golang)
• Java
• Python
• Chef
• GIT
• Kafka
• Grafana
• AWS Cloud

Bonus Points:

• Hands-on experience with distributed applications built on a variety of data stores (e.g. RDBMS, NoSQL, streaming solutions, queueing solutions, object storage, etc.)
• Hands-on experience building CLI tooling with Go.
• Used core AWS services such as EC2, S3, and IAM or Azure/GCP equivalents
• Created applications with in-memory or embedded key/value stores such as RocksDB.
• Built and deployed C++ applications, especially with modern CMake.
• Monitored applications with tools such as Graphite, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Constructed streaming systems using Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or similar
• Familiarity with Docker, containers, or virtual machines
• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields
• Contributed to the open-source community

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• 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 Resource Groups, geographic neighbourhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Great Place to Work Certified across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed.