About the Role
We're building a welcoming & flexible team that prizes collaboration over competition, one which provides opportunities to learn new skills, mentor junior and senior developers and contribute to the direction of both the team & the products for which we're responsible. This is a high trust environment where we allow team members to manage their own time, take holidays as they need it and reward them with competitive salaries and equity.
CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Engineer II for our Policy Management team. As a key technical leader in our organization, you will help drive architectural decisions, technical excellence, and innovation for the Policy team. The team is responsible for the cloud-side software and user interfaces that provide configuration and settings information to the Falcon endpoint agent and other products within the Falcon platform. Nearly every module of the Falcon platform offers customer-manageable configuration options, and changes to these options are distributed to the endpoint fleet within minutes. You'll be thinking about how to build and extend high-quality systems that scale cleanly and reliably, and then realizing those ideas in code. The Policy Management team is involved across the entire product line and you'll get to work closely with other groups across the company.
CrowdStrike is a computer security company, but we do not require candidates for this role to have prior security industry experience. We will mentor and train in security topics as needed. We do expect a strong interest in CrowdStrike's mission and a willingness to engage with the needs of our product teams and customers.
This role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on-site at one of the posted locations.
What You'll Do
•Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for the Policy Management team, driving end-to-end technical strategy, building technology roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and ensuring successful project delivery.
•Build and evolve cloud-based systems to flawlessly manage and distribute configuration information to a fleet of millions of endpoints, collaborating with other cloud, front-end, and endpoint developers.
•Brainstorm, design, and build collaboratively across multiple teams.
•Build elegant and performant solutions for complex technical problems across our tech stack.
•Read and critique code and pull requests in the multiple programming languages in use in our environment (including Go, Python, Unix shell, Typescript, C++, among others), and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members.
•Focus on continual learning, raising the bar for both yourself and your teammates.
•Leverage your understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean and our deployments are straightforward.
•Be an energetic 'self-starter' with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and when leading a team.
•Deliver and accept feedback with grace and kindness.
•Collaborate on determining root causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future.
•Occasionally travel for in-person meetings. CrowdStrike is a remote-friendly company, but we do get together from time to time. Expect to travel 1-3 times per year.
What You'll Need
•U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident and work solely from U.S. soil.
•A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.)
•7+ years of experience building and scaling complex, low-latency cloud-based back-end systems in production.
•Technical leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to mentor, influence and guide engineering teams.
•Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
•Experience with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, and/or similar technologies. You don't need all of these, but you need some.
•Prior experience with cloud services, such as AWS or GCP, particularly compute and storage offerings.
•Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
•Experience developing and deploying into Linux containers.
•Both a sense of humor and a sense of humility.
Bonus Points
•Prior experience managing configuration automation for large endpoint fleets (for example, Microsoft Configuration Manager, JAMF Pro, ChromeOS device management)
•Exposure to/experience with cybersecurity and intelligence.
This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.
Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike
•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
•Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $160,000 - $260,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.
