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

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 Product Group:

The Counter 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 projects here.

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 enviro