Software Engineer II - Engine Team, LogScale (Hybrid)
About The Position
CrowdStrike is hiring a Software Engineer II for its US-based LogScale engine team. The engineer will contribute to LogScale, an observability, log management, and security events application, by developing engine features and improving existing functionality in a highly distributed system that ingests petabytes of data per day through SaaS and on-premises offerings. The role involves complex engineering problems and offers the opportunity to build deep expertise in the LogScale engine and its broader architecture. The team owns its part of the LogScale experience from ideation and development through deployment and feedback. Engineers ensure quality through automated and manual testing, and monitor released features in production. The work focuses on scalable event ingestion and querying, cluster stability, query execution, Kafka-backed global data storage, and data replication and placement across nodes and bucket storage such as S3. The role is hybrid, with 2–3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations, and may require periodic additional background and fingerprint checks consistent with government customer requirements.
Requirements
- Passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity about how running systems are performing.
- 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, and ability to learn new languages as needed.
- 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 in large-scale distributed system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization.
Responsibilities
- 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 load while ensuring high availability.
- Communicate technical decisions through design documents and technical talks, and improve internal documentation.
- Provide technical advice, research technologies, and propose new technologies.
- Lead delivery of 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-premises and cloud customers.
- Troubleshoot critical production issues for SaaS and on-premises customers.
- Write automated tests, perform manual tests, and observe and monitor features in production.
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.
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
- Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities.
- Health insurance, 401(k), paid time off, bonuses, and equity grants.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
