Engineer III - Threat Detection (Remote)

#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing over 1 trillion events a day with a petabyte of RAM deployed in our Cassandra clusters - and this traffic is growing daily. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to developing and shaping our cybersecurity platform. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Software Engineer for our Cloud Security Runtime Protection team. The team is extending CrowdStrike’s mission of “stopping breaches” into the cloud-native workloads with the ultimate goal of providing a single platform for securing the entire lifecycle of cloud workloads from development through deployment to runtime.

The Software Development Engineer will join the Cloud Security Runtime Protection team that is in charge of building and maintaining detection and prevention features and capabilities for protecting cloud workloads and infrastructure, and containers and Kubernetes in particular. This is a unique opportunity to join a team that works at the intersection of software development and cloud security and is responsible for delivering complex features spanning the entire security stack from agents and sensors to cloud services.

Experience level: 4+ years

What You’ll Do:

• Build and expand cloud runtime protection features and capabilities for CrowdStrike’s agents/sensors that protect container and K8s workloads and infrastructure

• Research and develop new and introduce improvements to the existing cloud runtime security features with focus on containers and K8s 

• Learn and share with others the newest cloud technologies and security-relevant aspects of the cloud workloads and infrastructure, raising the technical IQ of the team and contributing to the product direction

• Be mentored and mentor other developers on K8s, Linux and cloud runtime technologies

What You'll Need:

• Deep experience with one or more programming languages such as Golang, C/C++

• Experience building K8s system-level software including K8s operators, controllers, …