Sr. Cloud Software Engineer - Counter Adversary Operations Team (Remote, ROU)

About the Product Group:

TheCounter Adversary Operations (CAO) Team is a first-of-its kind team that brings together CrowdStrike Falcon® Intelligence and the CrowdStrike® Falcon OverWatch™ threat hunting team to disrupt today’s adversaries and ultimately raise their cost of doing business. Both threat hunting and intelligence operations are essential to detect, disrupt and stop today’s adversaries. CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations has the power of both — along with the trillions of telemetry events from the AI-powered CrowdStrike Falcon® platform — to quickly act and intensify its impact on adversary activity. CrowdStrike’s deep adversary knowledge, expertise in pursuing and stopping threats, and visibility derived from the Falcon platform make us uniquely qualified to deliver the most effective method of stopping breaches and protecting customers.

You can also take a closer look at some of the CAO projectshere.

About the Role:

Join the cutting-edge Counter Adversary Operations (CAO) Engineering Team and make a direct impact on disrupting sophisticated adversaries. We're seeking a Senior Cloud Software Engineer to architect, build, and operate globally distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud ecosystems. If you're passionate about ensuring system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency, this is your opportunity to drive innovation in a critical domain. You will be instrumental in fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.

This role is open in Romania, remote or hybrid.

Interviewing process: online

Meet us virtually:CrowdStrike Romania.

What You'll Do:

• Drive System Reliability & Resilience:

  • Architect and build robust, globally distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud systems.

  • Define, monitor, and achieve Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical services, leveraging error budgets.

• Enhance Observability & Operational Efficiency:

  • Implement robust monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing solutions to proactively identify and address system issues.

  • Drive initiatives to optimize cloud resource utilization and reduce operational costs (COGS) without compromising reliability or performance.

  • Automate operational tasks, deployments, and incident response procedures to improve efficiency and reduce manual toil.

• Contribute to Engineering Excellence:

  • Work on and enrich backend microservices – from researching areas of concern to implementing the final solution.

  • Leverage existing CrowdStrike tools and services to build cloud-based systems that detect targeted attacks.

  • Brainstorm, research, define, communicate, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.

  • Have a strong focus on Quality of Coding through Best Practices, comprehensive Testing, and robust Observability.

  • Be prepared to mentor other developers on our system.

  • Work in a collaborative & Agile environment with a small, fast-moving team, with the autonomy to own your work in a high-trust environment.

  • Be aware of our customers and the difficulties they face and how we can support them.

  • Continuously improve our product's architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability.

• Be committed to learning and improving.

Tech Stack:

In-depth knowledge of all is not required, but the ability to ramp-up and learn is.

• Go (Golang)

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• AWS S3, EC2, IAM)

• Kafka

• GIT

• Cassandra

• Redis

• OpenSearch

What You'll Need:

• Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).

• At least 7 years of previous experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong focus on large-scale distributed systems and cloud environments.

• Proven experience in operating and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems in a production environment.

• Deep understanding and practical application of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.

• Deep understanding of scalability and distributed systems core concepts (e.g., sharding, partitioning, concurrency, consensus algorithms).

• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortems to continuously improve system reliability.

• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices, from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.

• The ability to thrive in a test-driven, collaborative, and iterative programming environment.

• The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with development, operations, and product teams.

• Being a team player.

Bonus Points:

• Existing exposure to Go, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch.

• Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence fields.

• Experience with specific monitoring, alerting, or incident management platforms.

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.