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Backend Engineer III, LogScale Language and Runtime (Remote, East Coast)

  2025-11-12     CrowdStrike     all cities,SC  
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Overview

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Engineer III for our NG-SIEM Product Group to work on the LogScale platform. As a member of the LogScale Language & Runtime team you will focus on the LogScale query language and its execution pipeline, from extending the query language to improving performance of existing functions. This is a highly distributed system that ingests 10+ Petabytes of data per day. Our goals are to scale to 100s of PB of data ingress per day, while maintaining best-in-class ingest, search and detection SLAs, as well as best-in-class cost structure. You will join a distributed team of engineers who share a strong passion for the product and will become one of the go-to experts of the LogScale language and its execution model.

What You'll Do

  • Work in a distributed 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 improving the experience of users of the language
  • Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extend our product to keep LogScale scalable with increasing ingest load while ensuring high availability
  • Communicate technical decisions through design documents, technical talks and improving internal documentation
  • Provide technical advice on decisions, and research and propose new technologies
  • Provide expertise on the LogScale query language
  • Collaborate within the team on delivery of new solutions and support team members through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance
  • Monitor and follow up on features released to customers on-prem and on cloud
  • Troubleshoot critical production issues on customer deployments

What You'll Need

  • A passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity about how our running systems are doing
  • Experience in software development in general and the ability to juggle pragmatic tradeoffs between short-term delivery and long-term product goals
  • Experience in contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services
  • Fluency in both functional and object-oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go
  • A can-do attitude and thrive in collaboration in a team, not afraid of taking on responsibilities

Bonus Points

  • Experience programming in Scala
  • Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience with compilers and language design
  • Hands-on experience in large-scale distributed system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization
  • Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products

Benefits Of Working At CrowdStrike

  • Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
  • 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

Equal Opportunity

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. We do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex, or other protected characteristics. If you need assistance accessing or reviewing information or submitting an application, contact ...@crowdstrike.com.

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