About the Role:
CrowdStrike is looking to hire an experienced Engineer to the Data Services team to help us take our database systems to the next level. We’re looking for a highly-technical, hands-on engineer, who loves to work with data plane services like Cassandra, ElasticSearch/Opensearch, Kafka, Redis, Valkey, MySQL, PostgreSQL and is comfortable building automation around large-scale cloud-based critical systems. We’ll be looking at candidate CVs with an eye on achievement what you’ve accomplished in the past tells us the most about what you can do for us in the future.

Focus area: OpenSearch and ElasticSearch

What You’ll Do:

• Maintain a deep understanding of the data components – including Cassandra, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, Zookeeper, MySQL and PostgreSQL, Redis, Valkey, Memcache, Pulsar, SQS and use that understanding to operate and automate properly configured clusters.

• Understanding of operating databases in kubernetes and managing container images.

• Develop infrastructure services to support the CrowdStrike engineering team’s pursuit of a full devops model.

• Work closely with Engineering and Customer Support to troubleshoot time-sensitive production issues, regardless of when they happen.

• Keep petabytes of critical business data safe, secure, and available.

What You’ll Need:

• Configuration management (Chef)

• Scripting in Python and bash

• Experience with large scale datastores using technologies like Cassandra, ElasticSearch/Opensearch, Kafka, Zookeeper,MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Valkey, Memcache, Pulsar, SQS

• Experience with large-scale, business-critical Linux environments

• Experience operating within the cloud, preferably Amazon Web Services, GCP and OCI

• Proven ability to work effectively with both local and remote teams

• Track record of making great decisions, particularly when it matters most

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• A combination of confidence and independence with the prudence to know when to ask for help from the rest of the team

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable field, such as CS, CIS or Engineering