Site Reliability Engineer - Romania - Remote

At CrowdStrike we’re on a mission - to stop breaches. Our groundbreaking technology, services delivery, and intelligence gathering together with our innovations in machine learning and behavioral-based detection, allow our customers to not only defend themselves but do so in a future-proof manner. We’ve earned numerous honors and top rankings for our technology, organization, and people – clearly confirming our industry leadership and our special culture driving it. We also offer flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives in a way that works for them. So if you’re ready to work on unrivaled technology where your desire to be part of a collaborative team is met with a laser-focused mission to stop breaches and protect people globally, let’s talk.

At CrowdStrike we operate a massive cloud platform that protects our customers from a variety of bad actors: cyber criminals, hacktivists and state sponsored attackers. We process tens of billions of events a day and we store and use petabytes of data. We’re looking for an engineer who is passionate about site reliability and is excited about joining us to ensure our service runs 24/7.

Our new colleague will work remotely during Covid and then from the Bucharest office (having also the option to work from home) or from Romania (Remote).

You will:

• Be responsible for all operational aspects of our platform - Availability, Latency, Throughput, Monitoring, Issue Response (analysis, remediation, deployment) and Capacity Planning with respect to Latency and Throughput
• Build tooling to help monitor and analyze the platform
• Work in a team of highly motivated engineers
• Use your passion for technology to ensure our platform operates flawlessly 24x7
• Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team. We don’t expect you to know all the technology we use but you will be able to get up to speed on new technology quickly
• Have broad exposure to our entire architecture and become one of our experts in overall process flow
• Be a great code reader and debugger, you will have to dive into large code bases, identify issues and remediate
• Have an intrinsic drive to make things better
• Bias towards small development projects and the occasional larger project
• Use and give back to the open source community

You'll use:

• Go (Golang)
• Python
• ElasticSearch
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• Redis, Memcached
• AWS Cloud


Key Qualifications:

You have:

• Experience as a sustaining engineering or SRE for a cloud based product
• Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems
• Good understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are
second nature to you
• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code
reviews and resilient architecture
• Good understand of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies
• The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment
• The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and
checked in regularly for continuous integration
• Team player skills – we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible

Bonus points awarded for:

• Contributions to the open source community: GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging
• Existing exposure to Go, Kafka, AWS, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Scala, Hadoop, Spark
• Prior experience in the Cyber Security or intelligence fields

Benefits Of Working At CrowdStrike

- Market leader in compensation
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Working with the latest technologies
- Training budget (certifications, conferences)
- Wellness programs
- Peer recognition
- Inclusive culture focused on people, customers and innovation
- Regular team activities, including happy hours, community service events

Recruitment process: online