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. Because of that we’ve earned numerous honors and top rankings for our technology, organization and talent. Our culture was purpose-built to be remote first, and we offer flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives in a way that works for them. If you’re ready to work on unrivaled technology with a team that makes a difference every day, let’s talk.

About the Role:

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).

Interviewing process: online

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 engineer or SRE for a cloud based product

• Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems.

• 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

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Flexible work hours and remote friendly environment

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards

• Comprehensive health benefits

• Wellness programs

• Peer recognition

• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities

• Inclusive culture focused on people, customers and innovation

• Working with the latest technologies

• Open offices have stocked kitchens, coffee, soda and treats

• Regular team activities, including happy hours and community service events

We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

CrowdStrike is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.