​​#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About The Role:

CrowdStrike is looking to hire a Software Engineer to join the Data Infra Engineering team as a Distributed Software Engineer. In this team, we are on a mission to create a hyper scale data pipeline, which helps finding bad actors and stopping breaches. The team builds and operates systems to centralize all of the data the falcon platform collects, making it easy for internal and external customers to transform and access the data for analytics, machine learning, and threat hunting.

As a Distributed Software Engineer, in this team you will be responsible for building our Flink/Spark/Ray ecosystem in Kubernetes, Flink, Kafka, Spark, MinIO, HDFS, Trino, Hive, Pinot etc. 

We are looking for candidates that have deep understanding of large scale big data scale distributed systems in the DataCenter or Cloud (PB-scale would be a plus) in the DataCenter/AWS and are passionate about solving problems at high scale.

This role involves leading efforts to build State-of-the-art Flink/Spark k8 platform.

Location: the role is open in Romania, Germany, Ireland, France, Italy remote.

What You’ll Do:

• Design large scale distributed systems control plane

• Implement Monitoring and Visualization system for large scale Kubernetes system

• Implement CRD to orchestrate the distributed system.

• Build performance monitoring system notification tolling 

• Communicate problems effectively.

• Experience in developing large scale distributed systems

• Strong Algorithmic skill 

• Well versed in programming in Golang, Java or Python

What You’ll Need:

• 3+ years experience in designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.

• Excellent understanding of low-level operating system concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, and performance at scale.

• Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, concurrency.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure – AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Strong problem solving skills.

• Strong analytical skills and with deep understanding of Distributed Systems.

• Strong programming skills in languages as Go, Python or Java

• Experience with continuous deployment on K8 with Helm, fluxCD. ArgoCD etc

• Familiarity with Chef is preferred.

• Proven ability to work with both local and remote teams.

• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.

Bonus points:

• Experience with large-scale business critical platforms with Flink/Spark on Kubernetes on data center or cloud.

• Understanding or Flink streaming/spark memory management or experience with spark internals.

• Strong  experience in one or both of field i.e., Flink/ Spark ecosystem with Kubernetes ecosystem background

• Solid understanding of either Flink or Spark(data) and K8 storage systems (Object stores S3/Minio, Spark ephemeral storage, Persistent volumes mapping and claims)

• Understanding of Apache Spark ecosystem technologies (Flink operator or Spark Operator, Kafka, FluxCD, ArgoCD, Jenkins Pipelines etc)

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards with option to participate in ESPP in eligible countries

• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements

• Physical and mental wellness programs 

• Paid parental leave, including adoption 

• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities

• Access to CrowdStrike University, LinkedIn Learning and Jhanna

• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

• Birthday time-off in your local country

• Work with people who are passionate in our mission and Great Place to Work certified across the globe