Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform (Remote)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day. We have 3.44 PB of RAM deployed across our fleet of C* servers - and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

Our Data Platform group at Crowdstrike is unique among its kind for being uncommonly customer-focused. In line with classic Data Platform groups, we build and operate systems to centralize all of the data from Falcon Sensors and 3rd Party sources derived from trillions of events/day. We also drive industry-leading innovation on a hyper scale security data lake that helps find bad actors and stop breaches.

Setting ourselves apart, we also make it easy for all customers to utilize the platform for batch and streaming analytics, machine learning and threat hunting through the production and delivery of self-service platforms (Query Platform, Analytics Platform, Enrichment platform...) based respectively upon Spark and Flink as the runtime(s). These self-service platforms allow customers to apply their own custom schema, syntax, data models (etc.) to our historical cyberattack data, modeling threats in a way that empowers them to predictively build (among other things) behavioral automations that defend against such threats 'before' they appear in their own environments.

In this role, you will be a Principal Engineer (E9 - what would typically be called 'Distinguished Engineer' elsewhere) within Data Platform, owning - in entirely hands-on capacity the design, build and delivery of a new self-service data enrichment platform which will take our customers' proactive defense measures to the next level.

As a leader in data platform, you will contribute to the full spectrum of our systems, including query processing, …