Engineer III, OverWatch Labs (Remote)
About The Position
CrowdStrike’s OverWatch Labs team builds the platform and tools OverWatch analysts use to process and hunt through trillions of events per day. The Engineer III will help advance and scale this platform by building and maintaining scalable data infrastructure, platforms, and tools. The role suits an engineer with broad software skills, strong communication, and an interest in large-scale, distributed, cloud-based, highly available systems. The engineer will collaborate with OverWatch engineering members to develop and maintain operational systems, projects, and tools; build new components and extend existing systems; and bring research projects into production and integrate them with OWL systems. The team works in a DevOps environment and is responsible for the systems it deploys, including participation in an on-call rota. This role is part of a distributed team working across time zones and may periodically require alcohol and/or drug testing during employment.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience.
- Experience with Go or another language for developing web backends and pipelines, such as Python or Ruby, or with compiled languages such as Rust or C++.
- Experience building web services with data-processing pipelines and understanding of the related concepts.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- 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.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, and iterative programming environment.
- Thorough understanding of engineering best practices, including appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, and resilient architecture.
- Clear communication skills and a willingness to learn, adapt, and tackle complex challenges.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with databases such as Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch.
- Kafka experience or understanding of messaging and queueing software.
- Authored and led successful open source libraries and projects.
- Contributions to the open source community through GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging, or similar.
- Exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, or Elasticsearch.
- Prior experience in cybersecurity or intelligence fields.
- Experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with OverWatch engineering members to build, develop, and maintain operational systems, projects, and tools.
- Build new components and extend the current system.
- Improve the platform and tools to help the OverWatch team work more effectively in analysis and hunting.
- Bring research projects into production environments and integrate them with OWL systems.
- Work in a DevOps environment and share responsibility for deployed systems, including participation in an on-call rota.
- Take ownership of deliverables and be accountable for results.
- Use and contribute to the open source community.
- Work as part of a distributed team of remote workers across time zones.
Benefits
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
- Competitive vacation and holidays
- Paid parental and adoption leaves
- Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities
- Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities
- Bonuses and equity grants
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
