Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

At CrowdStrike we’re on a mission - to stop breaches. Our groundbreaking technology, services delivery, and intelligence gathering together with our innovations in machine learning and behavioral-based detection, allow our customers to not only defend themselves but do so in a future-proof manner. Because of that, we’ve earned numerous honors and top rankings for our technology, organization, and talent. Our culture was purpose-built to be remote-first, and we offer flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives in a way that works for them. If you’re ready to work on unrivaled technology with a team that makes a difference every day, let’s talk.

About the Role:

We’re building the next-generation infrastructure and security platform for CrowdStrike which includes an application and service delivery platform, massively scalable distributed data storage and replication systems, and a cutting-edge search and distributed graph system. Help us scale CrowdStrike’s infrastructure and products to handle massive growth in traffic and data as we continue to experience dramatic growth in the usage of our products.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands.
• Develop and enhance monitoring services
• Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
• Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team.
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability.
• Collect data and build remediation systems that proactively identify, triage, and fix issues
• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for the deliverable.
• Use and give back to the open-source community.

Experience Skills and Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
• The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
• Team player skills – we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible.
• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, and iterative programming environment.
• The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Advantage of having coding expertise in Golang and Python
• Experience with container administration and development using Kubernetes, Docker, or similar.
• Experience in AWS (preferably), Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Great communication and interpersonal skills, including working across geographics and cultures.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-friendly culture
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements 
• Paid Parental Leave, including adoption 
• Wellness programs
• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities
• Open offices have stocked kitchens, coffee, soda, and treats

We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard, and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

CrowdStrike is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.