Sr. Software Engineer, Malware Research Center (Remote)

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. 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.

The CrowdStrike Malware Research Center is at the core of Falcon’s malware detection and response capabilities. The team has a focus on understanding the threat landscape and sets the target for what Falcon should be identifying and preventing. Additionally, the MRC is responsible for understanding our capabilities, and mapping how well our machine learning and behavioral protection capabilities are doing against those threats. Where there is a gap, the MRC takes action to improve our detection stance, and improve our overall protection story. There are many parts of CrowdStrike working towards protecting customer environments, and the MRC works across all of them to ensure we are on target and providing the best protection for our current threat landscape.

About the Role:

This is a Senior Software Engineer position on the Crowdstrike MRC Platform team. The Platform team’s Software Engineers build tools, background services & API based micro-services enabling better threat analysis, identification & detections in Falcon. These systems also support other teams & systems within the Research & Development and Data Science organizations. The software engineer is expected to be able to coordinate with leadership, plan, and oversee execution of projects to help improve the product. This role focuses on independent execution, problem solving and demonstration of passion towards engineering excellence.

What You'll Need 

• Experience in one or more high level programming languages (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)

• Strong understanding and experience with AWS and associated technologies

• Strong understanding and experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), for example Ansible, Pulumi, or Terraform

• Solid understanding of object oriented programming

• Experience with automating workflows & building pipelines with micro-services & APIs.

• Experience in working with relational and non-relational/NoSQL databases technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch etc.

• A solid background in software engineering. This includes good coding standards, source control, documentation of design, issue tracking, and producing results which are supportable.

• The ability to work across the organization to understand requirements and prioritize them per the overall business goals, communicating those priorities back to the stakeholders

• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges, multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.

• Attention to detail, willingness to learn. Cloud technology is moving quickly. The ideal technical solution may need some research and learning of new components. Openness to learning new languages and technology is key to success.

• Excellent problem solving abilities in a distributed computing environment.

• Experience in DevOps and related tools and technologies (Chef, Terraform, Kubernetes etc.)

• A good working knowledge of Linux

• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK

Nice to have skills

• Windows and Mac are also supported platforms as client systems, so a familiarity with these operating systems is ideal.

• Experience in user interface design and UI technologies (AngularJS, ReactJS) will be an advantage.

• Knowledge of security best practices in the context of micro services deployments

• Familiarity with Kanban development concepts. This role requires freque