Senior Engineer II - NG-SIEM Data Ingestion

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 is to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We operate at a massive scale, processing almost 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 seek 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

We are seeking a Senior Engineer II to join the GDI (Getting Data In) group within NG-SIEM. This role focuses on data ingestion at petabyte-scale, specifically on the data ingestion and onboarding experience for NG-SIEM customers. Our group ingests several petabytes of data per day across multiple regions from over 100 first-party and third-party data sources. Data onboarding is a critical first step in a customer's journey with NG-SIEM, and data volume directly correlates with our ability to detect and hunt threats effectively. Our platform is expanding to include all first and third-party data sources, requiring us to scale to support unlimited data ingestion and enable customers to ingest data without any limits.

You will be instrumental in driving our vision for a frictionless onboarding experience across hundreds of data sources, including leveraging AI to build autonomous agents for seamless data onboarding. This role involves leading key product initiatives and collaborating cross-functionally with other data platforms and product teams within CrowdStrike.

This role is open to candidates located in Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom, and Romania only.

What You'll Do

• Enable petabyte-scale data ingestion at millions of events per second with sub-second latencies.
• Lead and drive Agentic AI features to help customers onboard data to NG-SIEM seamlessly.
• Collaborate within a cross-functional team including UI, UX, and Data Scientists.
• Solve complex problems in distributed systems, focusing on high availability, reliability, performance, and cost optimizations.
• Develop systems using Go & Scala.
• Support globally available, multi-region systems in production.
• Lead and participate in cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple software products/systems/releases, preferably in a SaaS delivery model, across all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Fluency in at least one programming language, preferably Scala or Go.
• A can-do attitude, with a proven ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment and a willingness to take on responsibilities.
• Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when operating services that span many components across several geographical regions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate confidently with internal stakeholders.
• Strong experience in completing tasks for multiple projects simultaneously.

Bonus Points

• Experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization.
• Experience or interest in driving agentic AI projects.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture.
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards.
• Comprehensive physical and mental well-being benefits.

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