Software Engineer II - Engine Team, LogScale (Hybrid)

CrowdStrike•Austin, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

CrowdStrike is hiring a software engineer for its US-based LogScale engine team. The role contributes to the LogScale application for observability, log management, and security events, focusing on developing new engine features and improving existing functionality in a highly distributed system that ingests petabytes of data per day through SaaS and on-premise offerings. The engineer will develop expertise in the LogScale engine and gain a broad understanding of its architecture. The team owns its part of the LogScale experience from ideation and development through deployment and feedback, including automated and manual testing and monitoring features in production. The work includes improving scalability, event ingestion and processing, query performance, and cluster stability. The team works on the query execution engine, Kafka-backed global data storage, and storage systems that manage data replication, node placement, and bucket storage such as S3. The role helps maintain durability and high availability and involves solving open-ended engineering problems in a collaborative, autonomous team. This is a hybrid role requiring 2–3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations. The candidate may periodically need to undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint checks consistent with government customer requirements.

Requirements

Experience in software development and ability to balance pragmatic short-term delivery needs with long-term product goals.
Experience contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services.
Fluency in functional and object-oriented programming, with ability to learn new languages.
Interest in distributed systems and curiosity about how running systems are performing.
Collaborative, can-do attitude and willingness to take on responsibilities.
Proven experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Experience programming in Scala.
Experience with commercial cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience with Kafka.
Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization.

Responsibilities

Work with a collaborative team of engineers.
Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects.
Participate in scoping, designing, and developing new features, and lead delivery of solutions to open-ended problems.
Improve the scalability of the LogScale engine.
Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extend the engine to handle increasing ingest loads while ensuring high availability.
Communicate technical decisions through design documents and technical talks, and improve internal documentation.
Advise on technical decisions and research and propose new technologies.
Lead delivery of new solutions within the team and mentor team members through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews, and technical guidance.
Monitor and follow up on features released to on-premise and cloud customers.
Troubleshoot critical production issues affecting SaaS and on-premise customers.
Write automated tests, perform manual tests, and observe and monitor released features in production.