Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Engineer II role sits at the intersection of SaaS and security research, where product differentiation is driven by detection quality and operational reliability. CrowdStrike’s platform context, including cloud-delivered services and extremely high event volumes, makes the work representative of modern enterprise SaaS: multi-tenant systems, real-time data processing, and continuous delivery of new capabilities without disrupting customers.
For a SaaS engineering career, the value is in building judgment around production distributed systems and the tradeoffs that come with scale. Experience with streaming and stateful components, service health, and cloud provisioning translates directly to other data-intensive SaaS categories such as observability, fintech, and infrastructure tooling. The cross-functional collaboration described also mirrors how mature SaaS organizations ship complex features that blend engineering, data science, and domain expertise.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer platform-minded work over UI-heavy development and who enjoy improving systems through instrumentation, debugging, and iterative hardening. It also fits professionals who want to deepen competency in cloud services and distributed architectures while contributing to a product area where technical decisions have clear downstream impact on customer outcomes.
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 proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. 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 Role: CrowdStrike's Advanced Research team is expanding. We develop innovative detection capabilities that enable CrowdStrike to stay ahead of the adversary and stop breaches. We're looking to add a software engineer with experience building and maintaining cloud services. You'll work within a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with Security, Data Science, Engineering, and Visualization experts, all working toward the goal of developing innovative solutions to long-standing challenges in security. We provide opportunities for creativity, learning new skills, mentoring fellow engineers, and building technologies that meaningfully improve the protection we provide for our customers. We work in a distributed, remote-first, high-trust environment where you manage your own time. What You'll Do: Work with industry-leading technologies like Kafka, Flink, Redis, ElasticSearch and Cassandra and LLMs. Develop, maintain, and enhance the capabilities of distributed cloud services. Keeping services up and running in a healthy state. Work closely with other internal engineering teams to integrate new capabilities into our Falcon platform What You'll Need: United States Citizenship OR Permanent Residency is necessary to retain access to resources for this role (NO Clearance necessary) Computer science degree or commensurate experience. Programming expertise in at least one language. Java / Scala, Go, or Python experience is preferred. Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, RESTful patterns, and multithreading concepts. Proficiency building and scaling services in production. Hands on experience to any of the CI/CD tools and process such as Jenkins / Bamboo Experience interacting with major cloud provider APIs to provision cloud infrastructure, and to monitor it. (AWS, GCP, AZURE) Effective communication across functions and levels throughout the company Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes. Bonus Points: Familiarity with AWS, Kafka, Flink, Grafana Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes Strong debugging skills Hands on experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization Experience working in cybersecurity or intelligence fields #LI-Remote #LI-DR1 This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements. Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike: 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. CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements. If you need assistance accessing or reviewing the information on this website or need help submitting an application for employment or requesting an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@crowdstrike.com for further assistance. Find out more about your rights as an applicant. CrowdStrike participates in the E-Verify program. Notice of E-Verify Participation Right to Work CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $100,000 - $145,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off. For detailed information about the U.S. benefits package, please click here. CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 to fix a fundamental problem: The sophisticated attacks that were forcing the world’s leading businesses into the headlines could not be solved with existing malware-based defenses. Founder George Kurtz realized that a brand new approach was needed — one that combines the most advanced endpoint protection with expert intelligence to pinpoint the adversaries perpetrating the attacks, not just the malware. There’s much more to the story of how Falcon has redefined endpoint protection but there’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.
