Engineer III, Advanced Research (Remote)

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
Washington, US
Remote

Job Description

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:

  • 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

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

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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

The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $120,000 - $180,000 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.

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

JavaScalaGoPythonKafkaFlinkRedisElasticsearchCassandraLlmsAwsGcpAzureJenkinsBambooDockerKubernetesCommunicationCybersecurity

Salary

$120,000 - $180,000

year

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

senior

Posted

5/9/2026

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