Sr. Software Engineer II – Cloud Detection Engine (Hybrid, London)

Overview

In this role you will design, build, and scale foundational data, content, and execution services across CrowdStrike products. You will shape a high-performance platform handling internet-scale data streams to support real-time detection. You’ll collaborate across teams, mentor others, and push architecture and performance improvements in a fast-paced, autonomy‑driven environment. This is a chance to impact a mission-driven AI-enabled security platform at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• market leader compensation and equity
• wellness programs
• vacation and holidays
• parential and adoption leaves
• professional development opportunities
• employee networks and volunteering opportunities

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering efforts from prototypes to large-scale apps across CrowdStrike products
• Build cloud-based systems to detect targeted attacks and automate cyber threat intel production at global scale
• Collaborate across multiple teams to brainstorm, define, and build solutions
• Stay at the forefront of technology and raise the team’s technical IQ
• Mentor and be mentored on web, backend, and data storage technologies and system design
• Continuously re-evaluate architecture, knowledge models, UX, performance and stability to improve the product
• Own your work with autonomy in a high-trust environment

Key requirements

• Degree in Computer Science (or professional experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
• Understanding of scalability and distributed systems (sharding, partitioning, concurrency)
• Team player with collaborative mindset
• Strong engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, resilient architecture)
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, test-driven, iterative environment
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality, unit-tested software on schedule
• Experience applying AI technologies to improve decision-making and workflows

• team player
• collaborative mindset
• continuous learner
• Go (Golang) or C++
• AWS/GCP/Azure/Kubernetes
• Kafka

…