Job Description: Principal Engineer - LogScale Search

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to protecting modern organizations with its advanced AI-native platform. We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineer to join our LogScale Search team. This role is crucial in making all customer security-relevant data continuously available for automated detection, response, threat hunting, and other Falcon use cases. You will be instrumental in scaling our NG-SIEM systems to handle over 100 PB of event and action data ingested daily, with up to 10 years of retention and millions of queries per hour.

This position is open to candidates in the UK or Ireland (Remote) only.

About the Role

As a Principal Engineer on the LogScale Search team, you will:

• Own the technical vision and direction for our product.
• Develop new features and improve existing functionality to meet customer needs at scale.
• Work on complex engineering problems with no well-defined solutions.
• Become a go-to expert for LogScale, with a broad understanding of its architecture.
• Join a distributed, highly collaborative team passionate about the product.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and apply the technical vision for achieving over 100 PB/d of event and action log ingestion, enabling greatly multiplied query intensity.
• Lead by example in customer and product focus, as well as hands-on operational excellence.
• Deliver key system components as an individual contributor or as part of a project-focused engineering team.
• Demonstrate promising approaches through proof-of-concept software, securing buy-in and funding, and ensuring team delivery.
• Partner with peers to develop the NG-SIEM technical and product strategy and roadmap, and own its execution.
• Engage with principal engineers across CrowdStrike to ensure technical strategy coherence across Falcon modules and the broader technical landscape.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product engineering, sales, customer success, and support leaders.
• Utilize excellent verbal and written communication skills for global team collaboration.
• Travel a few times annually to meet with teams and peers.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple software products/systems/releases, preferably in a SaaS model, across all development lifecycle phases and multiple software stacks.
• 8+ years of experience as an engineer in a force-multiplying position (delivery through others).
• 3+ years of current hands-on experience as an engineer owning... (Note: The original text was cut off here.)