Sr. Software Engineer II - Cloud Detection Engine (Hybrid, London)
Role Overview
The Cloud Detection Engine team is building a platform for customers using multiple Falcon products to create and manage unified detections and content.
The team owns a streaming engine for first-party sensor telemetry, a petabyte-scale graph of real-time system activity, and a distributed correlation engine.
The platform evaluates trillions of events per day to identify multi-stage attacks.
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Cloud Detection Engine
The Cloud Detection Engine team is building a platform for customers using multiple Falcon products to create and manage unified detections and content.
The team owns a streaming engine for first-party sensor telemetry, a petabyte-scale graph of real-time system activity, and a distributed correlation engine.
The platform evaluates trillions of events per day to identify multi-stage attacks.
What you will do
- Lead backend engineering from prototypes to large-scale applications across CrowdStrike products.
- Design, build, and scale foundational services that orchestrate data, content, and execution logic.
- Build cloud-based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate global-scale cyber threat intelligence production.
- Collaborate with multiple teams to define and build solutions.
- Improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability.
- Mentor developers and help raise the team's technical capability.
- Own work from design through production.
Technology stack
- The technology stack includes Go or C++, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, Git, Cassandra, Docker, and Redis.
- The work includes systems programming, custom query languages, graph databases, state machines, and performance-sensitive engineering.
What you will need
- Have a Computer Science degree or professional experience in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Understand scalability and distributed systems concepts such as sharding, partitioning, and concurrency.
- Apply testing, peer code review, and resilient-architecture best practices.
- Work effectively in a fast-paced, test-driven, collaborative, iterative development environment.
- Deliver high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and regularly integrated.
- Have proven experience using AI technologies to improve decisions, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes.
Bonus qualifications
- Open-source contributions through GitHub, Stack Overflow, or blogging are a bonus.
- Exposure to Go or C++, Scala, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, or Elasticsearch is a bonus.
- Cybersecurity or intelligence experience is a bonus.
- Experience designing or implementing programming languages or compilers is a bonus.
Benefits
- Benefits include compensation and equity awards, wellness programs, vacation and holidays, parental and adoption leave, and professional development.
- Employees can participate in employee networks, geographic groups, volunteer opportunities, and office culture with amenities.
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