Software Engineer II - Engine Team, LogScale (Hybrid)

Location: USA — Austin, TX; hybrid work requiring 2–3 days per week on-site.

Salary: $100,000–$145,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants, health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.

Company

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company developing an AI-native platform that protects organizations and processes nearly 3 trillion security events per day.

What you will do

• Develop new features and improve existing functionality in the LogScale engine for observability, log management, and security events.
• Build and scale the Scala backend to handle increasing ingest loads while maintaining high availability, durability, and cluster stability.
• Improve query execution, global data storage with Kafka, replica placement, and bucket storage such as S3.
• Lead delivery of solutions to open-ended problems and contribute to cross-team, platform-level initiatives.
• Write automated tests, perform manual testing, monitor released features in cloud and on-premise environments, and troubleshoot critical production issues.
• Communicate technical decisions through design documents, technical talks, documentation, design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.

Requirements

• Passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity about the behavior of running systems.
• General software development experience and the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs between short-term delivery needs and long-term product goals.
• Experience contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services.
• Fluency in both functional and object-oriented programming, with the ability to learn new languages quickly.
• Collaborative, proactive approach and willingness to take on responsibilities.
• Proven experience using AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency, and drive business outcomes.
• Ability to undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint checks required for government customers.

Nice to have

• Experience programming in Scala.
• Experience with commercial clouds such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Kafka.
• Hands-on experience in large-scale distributed-system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, autonomous work culture with an AI-first approach to experimentation, innovation, and execution.
• Collaborative engineering teams with autonomy over ideation, development, deployment, and feedback.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Competitive vacation and holidays, paid parental and adoption leave.
• Professional development opportunities, employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
• Office culture with world-class amenities and comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.