Crowdstrike

Principal Cloud Engineer - Platform Data (Remote, ROU)

Romania

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Junior (1 to 2 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Software DevelopmentIndustries

Job Description

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Our mission since 2011 has been to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We operate large-scale distributed systems, processing nearly 3 trillion events per day, with this traffic growing daily. Our customers span all industries, relying on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe, and their lives moving forward. We are a mission-driven company that cultivates a culture of flexibility and autonomy, empowering every CrowdStriker to own their careers. We are always seeking talented individuals with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, community, and each other. The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role

CrowdStrike has experienced significant growth in Romania, expanding from 18 engineers in 2018 to over 350 employees today. Our engineers work remotely across Romania, including Bucharest, Iasi, Cluj, Timisoara, Brasov, and Craiova. This is a remote-friendly role open to all candidates in Romania, offering full-time remote work.

About the Falcon Platform

The Falcon platform is CrowdStrike's purpose-built solution to stop breaches through a unified set of cloud-delivered technologies that prevent all types of attacks, including malware and much more. CrowdStrike stores over 15 petabytes of data in the cloud, utilizing it to make decisions on upwards of 1 trillion security events daily.

As part of the Cloud Engineering Platform Data organization, you will build globally distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud-based systems using a microservices architecture. You will lay the foundation for CrowdStrike to continue pushing the state of the art in security services. Many other teams will leverage the core infrastructure you help build to enhance security products and make cyberspace a safer place.

You will join a team building a Global Query Engine ecosystem, comprising components that enable internal and external partners to access and join data from multiple underlying stores. The technology is built in-house and powered by Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Go. We will teach you Go if you don't know it!

This is an excellent opportunity to join our talented team of technology enthusiasts, learn, and contribute to one of the most revolutionary platforms in the cybersecurity space. If you are a hands-on engineer who loves technical challenges and wants to operate at scale, apply and let's talk!

Interviewing Process

  • Evaluation Process: We are looking for engineers with experience in developing scalable cloud solutions in any programming language.
  • Interview Format: Online

Do you love building cloud solutions and/or graph databases, and scaling them 100x? Let's have a talk!

What You’ll Do

  • Participate in engineering efforts to transform rapid prototypes into large-scale core services.
  • Leverage and build cloud-based services to support our top-rated security intelligence platform.
  • Ensure petabytes of critical business data remain safe, secure, and available.
  • Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
  • Champion continuous learning and the newest technologies, raising the technical IQ of the team.
  • Be mentored and mentor other developers on backend and data storage technologies.
  • Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability.
  • Be an energetic "self-starter" with the ability to take ownership and be accountable.

Skills

Cloud Engineering
Distributed Systems
Microservices
Cloud Platforms
Fault Tolerance
Scalability
Security Events Processing
Data Storage
AI-native Platforms

Crowdstrike

Cloud-native endpoint security solutions provider

About Crowdstrike

CrowdStrike specializes in cybersecurity, focusing on protecting businesses from cyber threats through cloud-native endpoint security solutions. Their main product, the Falcon platform, includes services like Falcon Pro, which replaces traditional antivirus with next-generation antivirus that integrates threat intelligence, Falcon Insight for endpoint detection and response, and Falcon Device Control to manage connected devices. Unlike many competitors, CrowdStrike's services are subscription-based, allowing clients to choose different levels of protection based on their needs. The company serves a diverse clientele, including many Fortune 100 companies, and is recognized as a leader in the cybersecurity field, known for its effectiveness in threat detection and response.

Austin, TexasHeadquarters
2011Year Founded
$468MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Enterprise Software, CybersecurityIndustries
5,001-10,000Employees

Benefits

Competitive Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Remote-friendly culture
Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements
Comprehensive health benefits + 401k plan
Paid Parental Leave, including adoption
Wellness programs
Professional development and mentorship opportunities
Open offices have stocked kitchens, coffee, soda and treats

Risks

Increased competition from companies like Lumos could challenge CrowdStrike's market share.
Recovery from last year's outage may still affect customer trust and future sales.
Pressure to demonstrate ROI by 2025 could challenge CrowdStrike's financial transparency.

Differentiation

CrowdStrike's Falcon platform offers cloud-native endpoint security solutions, a key differentiator.
The company serves 44 of the Fortune 100, showcasing its strong market presence.
CrowdStrike's proactive threat hunting sets it apart in cybersecurity threat detection.

Upsides

Partnership with SonicWall opens new SMB market segment for CrowdStrike.
Recognition as a leader in ransomware prevention boosts CrowdStrike's market credibility.
Gamified learning initiatives help address cybersecurity skills gap, benefiting future talent pipeline.

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