Backend Engineer III, Data Onboarding, NG-SIEM (Hybrid)

About the role

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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers 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 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

We are seeking an Engineer III to be part of the Data Onboarding Team under NG-SIEM. The group focuses on enabling 3rd party data ingestion and onboarding experience for NG-SIEM customers, ingesting several petabytes of data per day across multiple regions from 100+ 3rd party data sources.

Data Onboarding is the first critical step for a customer's journey into NG-SIEM and data volume directly correlates with our ability to detect and hunt threats effectively. Our platform is growing to include all 1st and 3rd party data-sources and needs to scale to support unlimited data ingestion and enable customers to ingest all data.

You will be part of a team and enable our vision to achieve a frictionless onboarding experience across hundreds of different data sources, including leveraging AI to build autonomous agents that facilitate seamless data onboarding for our customers.

You will be contributing to key product initiatives that will require you to collaborate with team members on platform-level initiatives, with opportunities to contribute and grow into leading cross-team platform initiatives across CrowdStrike.

This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at the posted location.

What You'll Do

• Work on enabling data onboarding so customers can ingest petabyte-scale at millions of events per second at sub-second latencies.
• Work as part of a cross-functional team including UI, UX and Data Scientists
• Solve hard problems in distributed systems, including high availability, reliability, performance and cost optimizations
• Develop systems in Go
• Support globally available, multi-region systems in production
• Lead and participate in cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects

What You'll Need

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or US Permanent Resident.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple software products/systems/releases, preferably in a SaaS delivery model, across all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Fluency in at least one programming language, preferably Go.
• Experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization
• Can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities.
• Product focus mindset and strong ownership based on the mindset " you built it, you own it "
• Experience with streaming systems like apache kafka, transaction db's, docker and k8s
• Strong communication skills; working collaboratively and confidently with internal stakeholders.
• Proven ability to prioritize and deliver across multiple concurrent workstreams without sacrificing quality.
• Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Points

• Experience or interest in driving agentic-AI projects
• Experience with Commercial clouds (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Prior experience in Cybersecurity
• Experience mentoring or informally guiding other engineers on technical design or code quality
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Additional information

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

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike

• 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

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