Engineer III, Data Services Control Plane Engineer

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 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:

The Data Services Control Plane team builds and operates a polyglot infrastructure at petabyte-scale across myriad clouds. Our work enables the highly-available transport, storage and access of data products delivering our award-winning endpoint protection solution. We operate a very large number of Cassandra, Kafka, Opensearch, MySQL, Postgres and Valkey clusters and develop the underlying tooling to automate and simplify administration and support activities. If that sounds exciting to you, read on!

As a Data Services Control Plane Engineer III, you'll develop robust software solutions that power our distributed data platforms. You'll write clean, maintainable code that enables automation, scalability, and reliability across our infrastructure. This role emphasizes software development expertise while working with large-scale data systems, with opportunities to grow your skills across multiple technologies.

What You'll Do:

• Implement scalable, high-performance software solutions for our distributed data platforms.

• Write production-quality code (primarily Golang, Java and Python) to build applications and APIs that automate infrastructure management.

• Analyze and debug unfamiliar codebases and dependencies written in Java, Golang and Python, including third party applications upon which development and service teams rely.

• Develop and maintain microservices that interact with our data platform components.

• Build data processing pipelines that handle petabytes of security telemetry.

• Implement software solutions that monitor and optimize performance across our distributed systems.

• Collaborate with team members to integrate new features and capabilities.

• Develop RESTful APIs and service interfaces for internal consumption.

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.

• Troubleshoot software issues in production environments.

• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.

• Use Chef to deploy, configure and manage servers and applications.

• Be responsive to and troubleshoot time-sensitive production issues, regardless of when they happen.

• Develop understanding of data components including Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and Kafka, and use that understanding to operate and automate properly configured clusters.

• Work with Engineering to roll out new products and features.

• Keep petabytes of critical business data safe, secure, and available.

• Communicate assumptions and seek clarification on requirements to reduce rework.

• Actively seek feedback from senior engineers to improve code quality and design decisions

What You'll Need:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.

• Proficiency in at least two of: Go, Java, or Python, with experience building production applications.

• Experience with API design and development (REST in particular).

• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Knowledge of software design patterns and principles (SOLID, DRY, etc.).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

• Understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architectures.

• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques for distributed systems.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).

• Experience with at least one of the following (additional experience is a plus):​​Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, Relational Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Caching (Valkey/Redis/Memcached), Neo4j or other graph database, MongoDB​

• Experience with DevOps tools such as Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Chef and Terraform.

• Experience with Linux environments.

• Experience operating within the cloud (AWS, GCP, or OCI).

• Ability to work effectively with both local and global remote teams.

• Strong communication skills, verbal and written.

• Eagerness to learn new technologies and expand technical expertise.

• Experience in the information security industry preferred, but not required

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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

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.

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