Sr. Engineer - Research Operations (Remote)

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. 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 an inclusive 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 Cybersecurity threat landscape is ever evolving, changing, and adapting. Our threat adversaries continue to find new ways to evade detection and compromise systems around the world. The Strategic Counter-Adversarial Research (SCAR) team’s mission is to research and develop novel technologies, procedures, and processes to counter such threat capabilities.

We are looking for a Senior-level Engineer with experience in building and maintaining scalable data infrastructure/platforms and tools for our team. Someone with foundational knowledge in algorithms, software engineering/development and operational research is highly preferred. In short, someone who is technically proficient and communicates well with others.

Team Culture: Stay humble. Stay positive. Stay hungry.

• Exhaustively passionate: We can’t emphasize this enough. We love what we do, and feel our work is making a notable impact and difference on a global and geopolitical scale.

• Strong work ethic: We work extremely hard, not just smart. It’s essential to our success. Be ready to be dedicated and focused.

• Team player: Our success and failures are shared together. We learn from each other. We help each other to grow and develop. We take constructive criticism gracefully and give credit where credit is due.

• Learner: Be willing to learn, to seek truth, and understanding. Take the initiative to acquire knowledge and investigate questions you might have.

• Adaptable/Agile/Flexible: Nothing ever goes according to plan, be prepared to do any task necessary that benefits and contributes to the team success (i.e. low-level data entry to high-level research design and experimentation)

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with SCAR members to build, develop, and maintain operational research systems, projects, and tools.

• Work closely with operational engineering teams to transfer research work to production.

• Lead projects to build new components and extend the current system, where you would need to gather requirements, plan, code, test, and deploy to completion.

• Convert research projects into production environments and integrate them with our production systems.

• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.

• Work with distributed and asynchronous data systems.

• Use Programming Languages such as: Python, Java, SCALA, C/C++, JavaScript /JS Frameworks, RUST/

• Leverage technologies such as: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Relational/Graph Database Technologies,ElasticSearch, Kafka, External/Internal APIs/

What You’ll Need:

• Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering (or commensurate experience).

• Experience with Python, and a compiled language such as Golang.

• Experience building web-services with data processing pipelines and experience with the concepts required.

• Experience with relational, graph, and noSQL databases (Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch a plus).

• Understanding of messaging or queueing software, Kafka experience highly desirable.

• Linux skills and experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments.

• Understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, particularly in cloud environments such as AWS.

• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.

• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.

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This role may require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass alcohol and/or drug test(s) during the course of employment.

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

• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities

• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

Right to Work

CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary range for this position in the U.S. is $135,000 - $215,000 per year + variable/incentive compensation + equity + benefits. A candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location.

Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:11-23-2024