Engineer III, OverWatch Labs (Remote)

CrowdStrike • Austin, TX

7d • Remote

About The Position

CrowdStrike’s OverWatch Labs (OWL) team builds the platform and tools used by OverWatch analysts to process and hunt through trillions of events. The Engineer III will help advance and maintain scalable data infrastructure, platforms, and tools that support this work. The role suits an engineer with broad software skills, clear communication, and an interest in large-scale, distributed, cloud-based, highly available systems. The platform is designed to scale to millions of events per second and terabytes of data per day.

The engineer will collaborate with OverWatch engineering members, 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 is a remote role on a distributed team working across time zones.

The team values passion, hard work, shared accountability, learning, adaptability, and collaboration. The position calls for ownership of deliverables, a focus on engineering quality, continuous learning, and willingness to tackle varied tasks and novel challenges. The engineer is also expected to use and contribute to the open-source community and apply AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.

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 a compiled language such as Rust or C++.
• Experience building web services with data-processing pipelines and understanding of the concepts involved.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of messaging or queueing software.
• 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 ability to work as part of a distributed team across time zones.
• Foundational knowledge of algorithms, software engineering/development, and operational research is highly preferred.
• Proven experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch; these technologies are noted as a plus.
• Kafka experience; helpful but not required.
• Authored and led successful open-source libraries and projects.
• Contributions to the open-source community through GitHub, Stack Overflow, or blogging.
• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, or Elasticsearch.
• Prior experience in cybersecurity or intelligence fields.
• Experience with distributed technologies and algorithms, API and systems design, and writing code that performs at extreme scale.

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 perform analysis and hunting more effectively.
• Bring research projects into production environments and integrate them with OWL systems.
• Deploy and operate systems in a DevOps environment, including participating in an on-call rota.
• Take ownership of deliverables and be accountable for them.
• Promote quality and help the team improve its engineering standards.
• Learn continuously and adapt to complex and novel challenges.
• Use and contribute to the open-source community.

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.
• Eligibility for bonuses and equity grants.
• Health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level