Sr. Software Engineer - SDMF team (Hybrid, ROU)

Description

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 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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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:

We are looking for a colleague to help develop and maintain our specialized semantic data modeling framework (SDMF), which serves as the backbone of several cloud services, libraries, and databases at CrowdStrike.

The SDMF Core team is responsible for CrowdStrike's principal data model, metadata catalog, and query language specification used by the associated query services. The catalog covers a wide spectrum of sources, ranging from internal services to trusted third-party partners and open industry standards.

Our mission is to enable data interoperability among all consumers, producers, and inquirers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop performant Cloud developer tools for data modeling, transformation, and code generation.
• Collaborate with colleagues who focus on semantic modeling, language/compiler design, and developer toolchains.
• Own features from design to delivery, including sustained care after release.
• Collaborate with other teams on cross-functional design of developer-facing APIs and tools.
• Understand and evolve the larger system architecture and its impact on development workflows and tooling.
• Be mentored and mentor other developers on backend and data storage technologies.
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
• Be an energetic “self-starter” with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.
• Go
• Python
• SQL DBs
• Kafka
• OpenSearch
• Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, OCI)

Requirements

• Experience building data-model-driven declarative systems and domain-specific languages.
• Experience with schema design, type systems, and data transformation pipelines.
• Experience with data-model verification and developer tooling.
• Experience with developing cloud-based or similar highly concurrent, distributed systems.
• Strong background in Computer Science: algorithms, graphs, computation theory (recursion, automatas, regular expressions, etc).
• Experience writing production quality code in Go and Python, but also willingness to learn other languages as needed – polyglot engineers most welcome.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
• Comfortable with testing as a first-class activity: unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, fuzzy/property-based testing, etc.
• Deliver and accept feedback with grace and courtesy.
• Strong sense of ownership accompanied by low ego.
• Proactivity.
• Comfortable working in a distributed environment across multiple time zones.
• Bonus Points:
• Experience with Graph Databases, Semantics and Ontologies.
• Experience with developing code within a well-defined information architecture.
• Code optimization and performance assessment/profiling/testing.
• Experience developing CLI tools, tests, and test automation.
• Extensive experience with testing frameworks, orchestration systems and their integration into Jenkins, Gitlab CI, or similar CI/CD environment.
• Familiarity with formal software verification methods, such as Alloy, TLA+, or Agda.
• Experience with compiler implementation.
• LI-AV1

Benefits

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work Certified across the globe
• CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.
• CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.
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