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CrowdStrike · 2 months ago

Principal Engineer - Cloud - Policy (Remote)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$195K/yr - $290K/yr

7+ years exp

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to stopping breaches with their advanced AI-native platform. They are seeking a Principal Engineer for their Policy Management team to provide technical leadership and drive architectural decisions for cloud-based systems that manage configuration for millions of endpoints.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesCloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork Security

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for the Policy Management team, driving end-to-end technical strategy, building technology roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and ensuring successful project delivery

Build and evolve cloud-based systems to flawlessly manage and distribute configuration information to a fleet of millions of endpoints, collaborating with other cloud, front-end, and endpoint developers

Brainstorm, design, and build collaboratively across multiple teams

Build elegant and performant solutions for complex technical problems across our tech stack

Read and critique code and pull requests in the multiple programming languages in use in our environment (including Go, Python, Unix shell, Typescript, C++, among others), and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members

Focus on continual learning, raising the bar for both yourself and your teammates

Leverage your understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean and our deployments are straightforward

Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and when leading a team

Deliver and accept feedback with grace and courtesy

Collaborate on determining root causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future

Occasionally travel for in-person meetings. Crowdstrike is a remote-friendly company, but we do get together from time to time. Expect to travel 1-3 times per year

Qualification

Cloud-based systemsDistributed systemsGolangTechnical leadershipPythonKubernetesAWSLinux containersC++TypescriptRedisKafkaElastic SearchConfiguration automationCybersecurity exposureHumorHumility

Required

A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.)

7+ years of experience building and scaling complex, low-latency cloud-based back-end systems in production

Technical leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to mentor, influence and guide engineering teams

Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges

Experience with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, and/or similar technologies. You don't need all of these, but you need some

Prior experience with cloud services, such as AWS or GCP, particularly compute and storage offerings

Experience developing and deploying into Linux containers

Both a sense of humor and a sense of humility

Preferred

Prior experience managing configuration automation for large endpoint fleets (for example, Microsoft Configuration Manager, JAMF Pro, ChromeOS device management)

Exposure to/experience with cybersecurity and intelligence