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Software Engineer II - Engine Team, LogScale (Mountain, Central or Eastern Remote)

at CrowdStrike, Inc. in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

CrowdStrike, Inc.

Full time

R18300

About the Role:
As our new software engineer in CrowdStrike, you’ll contribute to the LogScale application for observability, log management, and security events. As a member of the new US based engine team you will focus on the LogScale engine that makes LogScale scale by developing new features as well as improving existing functionality. This is a highly distributed system that ingests Petabytes of data per day through both our SaaS and On Premise offerings. You will be joining a distributed team of highly collaborative engineers who share a strong passion for the product. In this role you will get a chance to work on hard engineering problems that do not have well-defined solutions. You will become one of the go-to experts of the LogScale engine, and will have a broad understanding of the entire LogScale architecture.
Teams in LogScale have a great amount of autonomy, and own a part of the LogScale experience, from ideation and development to deployment and feedback. This includes ensuring high quality of the features they deliver, by writing automated tests, and performing manual tests. Moreover, we do not just throw over features to our operations teams, but we constantly observe and monitor new features in production, with LogScale dashboards of course.

An important part of our work is making sure that LogScale continues to be scalable in terms of efficiently ingesting and digesting events, querying for the right data, while also ensuring the stability of the clusters. Some of the critical elements that the team is working on improving is the query execution engine that makes the LogScale queries be lightning fast. The team is also working with our internal “global” data storage using Kafka and the storage engine that ensures data is stored in the right number of replicas as well as on the correct nodes and in bucket storage such as S3. You will be playing a crucial role in ensuring that LogScale can continue with its successful durability and high availability.
This role is open to candidates located in Mountain, Central or Eastern Time Zone.

What You'll Do:
  • Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues

  • Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects

  • Participate in scoping, designing and developing of new features and lead delivery of solutions to open-ended problems

  • Contribute to moving the scalability of our LogScale engine to the next level

  • Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extending our engine to keep LogScale scale with increasing ingest load while ensuring high availability

  • Communicate technical decisions through design documents, technical talks and improving our internal documentation.

  • Provide technical advice on decisions, and research and propose new technologies

  • Lead delivery of new solutions within the team and mentor team members through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance

  • Monitor and followup on features released to customers on-prem and on cloud

  • Troubleshoot critical production issues both on our

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    CrowdStrike, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicants for employment based on their race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other status protected by law.
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    Job Posting: 11989673

    Posted On: Jun 19, 2024

    Updated On: Jun 22, 2024

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